changing minDate option in JQuery DatePicker not working

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I have declared a date picker instance as follows           datePickerId   datepicker        dateFormat   DD  d MM yy         minDate  0        showOn   button         buttonImage         images calendar gif         buttonImageOnly  true        hideIfNoPrevNext  true               I now want to change to the minDate option so I do this       datePickerId   datepicker  option    minDate   3     But nothing happens  Was I suppose to do anything else  What other possible causes could there be

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Say we have two date select fields  field1  and field2  field2 date depends on field1      field2   datepicker        field1   datepicker     onSelect  function dateText  inst            field2   val              field2   datepicker  option    minDate   new Date dateText

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Use minDate as string       datePickerId   datepicker  minDate   0       This would set today as minimum selectable date

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How to dynamically alter the minDate  after init   The above answers address how to set the default minDate at init  but the question was actually how to dynamically alter the minDate  below I also clarify How to set the default minDate   All that was wrong with the original question was that the minDate value being set should have been a string  don t forget the quotes        datePickerId   datepicker  option    minDate    3      minDate also accepts a date object and a common use is to have an end date you are trying to calculate so something like this could be useful       datePickerId   datepicker       option    minDate   new Date     datePop start   val         How to set the default minDate  at init   Just answering this for best practice  the minDate option expects one of    a string in the current dateFormat OR number of days from today  e g   7  OR string of values and periods   y  for years   m  for months   w  for weeks   d  for days  e g   -1y -1m      bogart setting the string to  0  is a solution as it satisfies option 2 above      datePickerId   datepicker  minDate    3      jQuery UI docs for minDate

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Draco   You can do it like this       datePickerId   datepicker        dateFormat   DD  d MM yy         minDate  new Date 2009  10 - 1  25      it will set minDate from 25 October 2009       showOn   button         buttonImage         images calendar gif         buttonImageOnly  true        hideIfNoPrevNext  true               remember to write -1 after month  ex  for june is -  6 -1

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There is no need to destroy current instance  just refresh       datepicker        datepicker  option    minDate   new Date       datepicker  refresh

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Month start from 0   0   January  1   February  2   March       11   December

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Change the minDate dynamically   datepicker  destroy     For example    lt script gt        function                datepicker    datepicker  destroy               datepicker    datepicker               lt  script gt      lt p gt Date   lt input type  text  id  datepicker    gt  lt  p gt

[jquery-ui] changing minDate option in JQuery DatePicker not working

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