Get Date from jQuery DatePicker

by Kyle Mitofsky

HTML

<p>Date: <input type="text" id="datepicker"/></p>
<div id="placeholder"></div>











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    About this SO Question: <a href='http://stackoverflow.com/q/23227946/1366033'>Get date from datepicker and display it in a div</a><br/>                
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JavaScript

$(function() {
    $("#datepicker").datepicker();
    $("#datepicker").change(function() {
        var date = $(this).datepicker("getDate");
        $("#placeholder").text(date);
    });
});