jQuery datepicker years shown

Question

With the jQuery datepicker, how does one change the year range that is displayed? On the jQuery UI site it says the default is \"10 years before and after the current year

Answer 1

Perfect for date of birth fields (and what I use) is similar to what Shog9 said, although I'm going to give a more specific DOB example:

$(".datePickerDOB").datepicker({ 
    yearRange: "-122:-18", //18 years or older up to 122yo (oldest person ever, can be sensibly set to something much smaller in most cases)
    maxDate: "-18Y", //Will only allow the selection of dates more than 18 years ago, useful if you need to restrict this
    minDate: "-122Y"
});

Hope future googlers find this useful :).