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

getDate function returns a JavaScript date. Use the following code to format this date:

var dateObject = $("#datepicker").datepicker("getDate");
var dateString = $.datepicker.formatDate("dd-mm-yy", dateObject);

It uses a utility function which is built into datepicker:

$.datepicker.formatDate( format, date, settings ) - Format a date into a string value with a specified format.

The full list of format specifiers is available here.