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Daft question for you: why have a hidden field and not just capture the date selected from the date field on form submission?
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Daft question for you: why have a hidden field and not just capture the date selected from the date field on form submission?

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@All:<br />
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Thank you very much for the assistance. Much appreciated.
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@All:

Thank you very much for the assistance. Much appreciated.

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Experts,<br />
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When using the jquery ui datepicker, I'd like to append the date the user selects to a hidden input field so that I can pass the value upon form submission. &nbsp;Any assistance you could provide would be much appreciated.<br />
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Here's my fiddle which shows my current working code:<br />
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<a href="http://jsfiddle.net/bdbarrera/tf1vrf0v/" rel="ugc">http://jsfiddle.net/bdbarrera/tf1vrf0v/</a><br />
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Just not sure how to modify the javascript to grab the date once it is selected?<br />
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Cheers!
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Experts,

When using the jquery ui datepicker, I'd like to append the date the user selects to a hidden input field so that I can pass the value upon form submission.  Any assistance you could provide would be much appreciated.

Here's my fiddle which shows my current working code:

http://jsfiddle.net/bdbarrera/tf1vrf0v/

Just not sure how to modify the javascript to grab the date once it is selected?

Cheers!

How to append the selected date to a hidden input using jquery ui datepicker?

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