JQuery Datepicker, can't trigger onSelect event manually!

datepicker, event-handling, jquery

Solution

Couldn't you just refactor that to a function of its own, which you reuse? Strictly speaking, a datepicker select is not really what happens on page load. You just want to do exactly the same thing that happens when the datepicker is indeed selected.

function populateList(dateText, inst)
{
    alert('alert test');
    $('#date').val($.datepicker.formatDate("yy-mm-dd",$('#date_calendar').datepicker('getDate')));

    // Ajax for populating days when selected
    $.post("server_requests/show_day.php",
        {
            date: $('#date').val(),
            user_id: $('#user_id').val()
        },
        function(data)
        {
            //return function
            $('#my_day_tasks').html(data.resultTable);
        },
        "json"
    );
}

$(document).ready(function(){
  //create date pickers
  $("#date_calendar").datepicker(
  { 
        changeMonth: true,
        changeYear: true,
        dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd',
        defaultDate: $.datepicker.parseDate("y-m-d", $('#date').val()),
        onSelect: populateList
  }).disableSelection();

  // i'm not bothering to pass the input params here, because you're not using them anyway
  populateList(); 

});

Problem

I am using jquery's datepicker where a list of items is populated from an ajax call whenever a date is picked from an inline datepicker object. The script works perfect except that I can't trigger an onSelect event to populate my initial list of items. I could get around this problem by just populating the list initially using php but I would really like to avoid this. ``` $(document).ready(function(){ //create date pickers $("#date_calendar").datepicker( { changeMonth: true, changeYear: true, dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd', defaultDate: $.datepicker.parseDate("y-m-d", $('#date').val()), onSelect: function(dateText, inst) { alert('onSelect triggered! Yay!'); $('#date').val($.datepicker.formatDate("yy-mm-dd", $('#date_calendar').datepicker('getDate'))); // Ajax for populating days when selected $.post( "server_requests/show_day.php", { date: $('#date').val(), user_id: $('#user_id').val() }, function(data) { //return function $('#my_day_tasks').html(data.resultTable); }, "json" ); } }).disableSelection(); $("#date_calendar").trigger('onSelect'); }); ``` Any help is appreciated :)

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