JQuery Datepicker, can't trigger onSelect event manually!

Question

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 exc

Answer 1

The accepted answer was not something I could use, because I was using common code that added hotkey functionality on all datepickers in my web application (to set value to today, +1 day, +1 month, etc.), and wanted to make sure onselect was called to validate the date value that was calculated with the hot key.

I took this from the source code of the datepicker.js file. Note thiat this should be replaced with your datepicker element. In my case, I was calling this from a keydown event.

// this is SUCH a hack.  We need to call onselect to call any
// specific validation on this input.  I stole this from the datepicker source code.
var inst = $.datepicker._getInst(this),
onSelect = $.datepicker._get(inst, "onSelect");
if (onSelect) {
    dateStr = $.datepicker._formatDate(inst);
    onSelect.apply((inst.input ? inst.input[0] : null), [dateStr, inst]);
}