How do you set the default date within the date picker to today's date?

[Nathan Kahl]

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[Igor]

Add javascript code on screen load:

precode
var currDate = new Date();
$('div[dsid="mobiledatepicker1"] input').val((currDate.getMonth()+1)+'/'+currDate.getDate()+'/'+currDate.getFullYear());
/code/pre
Make sure the component is called 'mobiledatepicker1' or use whatever name you set.

[Mike6979865]

I used this code, and it shows the date. However, when I click on search nothing appears. I would have to then manually click on calender, and select the same date. So, I have on click set local storage variable which is the date. However, even though the correct date is in the box, it's not recognizing it when it's showing today's date.

[Alena Prykhodko]

Hello Mike,

Please show us screen shot.
Please note, by default datepicker component displays current today date http://devcenter.appery.io/documentat...

[Mike6979865]

The thing is it's asking me to set a default day. I can't delete that. I want today's date to show when I run the program.

[Yurii Orishchuk]

Hi Mike,

Following code works for me:

pre

//Create date. You can set here the date you need.
var currDate = new Date();

//Note: you should replace "mobiledatepicker_132" with your datepicker component.
$('div[dsid="mobiledatepicker_132"] input').val((currDate.getMonth()+1)+'/'+currDate.getDate()+'/'+currDate.getFullYear());

console.log("Set date for datepicker component as = '" + (currDate.getMonth()+1)+'/'+currDate.getDate()+'/'+currDate.getFullYear() + "'");

/pre

So you can run this code on "page show" event and do not care about default date in component properties.

Regards.

[Mike6979865]

Worked like magic ! Thank you Yurii.

[Mike6979865]

Well, yes, it did show today's date, but I still have the same problem. When I click on Search, it's now reading the value that is showing in the textbox of the date picker. Here's a screen shot

[Mike6979865]

Well, yes, it did show today's date, but I still have the same problem. When I click on Search, it's now reading the value that is showing in the textbox of the date picker. Here's a screen shot

[Yurii Orishchuk]

Hi Mike,

Can not understand your problem.

Please give us more details.

Regards.