Listening to onChange on a jQuery datepicker?

Question

I currently am creating a date picker like so

HTML

Answer 1

Here is a possible solution:https://jsfiddle.net/7atsua85/

Instead of e.target.value, use $(this).val() as shown below,

$('#datepicker').datepicker()
    .on("change", function (e) {
    //console.log("Date changed: ", e.target.value);
    alert($(this).val())
});

Answer 2

Use jquery on input alongside with the on change event

$('#datepicker').datepicker()
    .on("input change", function (e) {
    console.log("Date changed: ", e.target.value);
});

Fiddle