jQuery UI datepicker opens automatically within dialog

Question

I have a datepicker which is used within the jQuery dialog object. The source of the dialog\'s content is loaded using .load(). Within the dialog I created a sc

Answer 1

I know this is a old question, but one solution that worked for me was triggering off a calendar icon:

$( ".date" ).datepicker({
  showOn: "button",
  buttonImage: "../css/imgs/calendar.gif",
  buttonImageOnly: true
});