How to get the changed date from bootstrap-datepicker

bootstrap-datepicker, javascript, jquery, twitter-bootstrap

Solution

As described in the docs, the Eternicode version of bootstrap-datepicker adds three attributes to the `changeDate` event that can be used for accessing the newly selected date. You'll be interested in either the `.date` property (which points to the actual date object representing the selected date) or the `.format` method, which you can use to get the date as a string.

Assuming the simplest case (where you have a single picker and you want to get the date as a string in the same format that you initialised the datepicker with), you'll just want to call `.format()` with no arguments:

$('#calendar').on('changeDate', function(event) {
    alert(event.format());
});

Here's a JSFiddle showing this in action: http://jsfiddle.net/bhm7p/3/

Problem

I am using Eternicode's fork of the bootstrap-datepicker library and until now all is going well for generating it, but I want to get the date in order to use it in my logic after changing the date. ``` $('#calendar').on('changeDate', function(event, date) { // how to pop alert message to print the date I've chosen ? }); ``` How can I do this?

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