Stop jquery-ui datepicker from showing in beforeShow

Question

I wish to do something like this:

var showme = false;

$(\'#mydatepicker\').datepicker({
    beforeShow: function(input, inst) {
        if(!showme) {
               


        

Answer 1

The best way to prevent datepicker from opening is to use the following function in beforeShow:

$("#datepicker").datepicker("close");

this forces datepicker to close before it even get's shown.