How to clear a DatePicker

Question

I have a DatePicker for selecting birthday.

This is going to be used for some filtering, and after the filtering, I will like the value to be

Answer 1

If you want to clear the TextField of the DatePicker, you can use :

datepicker.getEditor().clear();

If you want to clear the value and the textfield, use :

datePicker.setValue(null);

Answer 2

just add this code

}).keyup(function(e) {
    if(e.keyCode == 8 || e.keyCode == 46) {
        $.datepicker._clearDate(this);
    }
});

You can use backspace to clear field even if it has in read only mode. Source