jQuery UI DatePicker - Change Date Format

Question

I am using the UI DatePicker from jQuery UI as the stand alone picker. I have this code:

And the

Answer 1

dateFormat

The format for parsed and displayed dates. This attribute is one of the regionalisation attributes. For a full list of the possible formats see the formatDate function.

Code examples Initialize a datepicker with the dateFormat option specified.

$( ".selector" ).datepicker({ dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd' });

Get or set the dateFormat option, after init.

//getter
var dateFormat = $( ".selector" ).datepicker( "option", "dateFormat" );
//setter
$( ".selector" ).datepicker( "option", "dateFormat", 'yy-mm-dd' );