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jQuery DatePicker - How do I show today's month instead of the selected dated?

So I've been looking everywhere for an answer. Including jQuery's datepicker API website and I can't seem to find a suitable answer.
This is what I would like to happen. When the text field is pressed and the datepicker pops up, I would like the calendar month to show this month, rather than defaulting to any previously selected date.
I still want to be able to select next and previous on the months. So setting minDate is not an option.
So for example, a user has previously selected 03/03/2013. The user then clicks the textbox, which pops up the date picker again, the month displayed is today's month rather than March. However, 03/03/2013 is still selected.
Thanks!
Code is very vanilla...
$(document).ready(function () {
$(".datePickerShowToday").datepicker({
dateFormat: 'dd/mm/yy',
buttonText: 'Click here to select a date',
onSelect: function () {
}
});
});
HTML Code:
<input type="text" id="NotificationDate" class="datePickerShowToday" />

You can do this with the $.datepicker._gotoToday function [this is what the datepicker uses for Ctrl + Home]. However, the widget doesn't provide an open event (it has beforeShow but that won't work in your case as it only runs before the widget is drawn). You can simulate this by using .focus on the input field and only binding one handler at a time (since keeping focus on the datepicker itself also triggers focus):
$( ".datePickerShowToday" ).datepicker({
onClose: function() {
$( ".datePickerShowToday" ).one("focus", function() {
$.datepicker._gotoToday(this);
});
}
});
$( ".datePickerShowToday" ).one("focus", function() {
$.datepicker._gotoToday(this);
});
Here's a fiddle with the above: http://jsfiddle.net/4vskg74t/

One way to do it:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.datePickerShowToday').datepicker();
$(".datePickerShowToday").click(function(){
$('.datePickerShowToday').datepicker('setDate', null);
});
});

jQuery Datepicker, event AFTER select, not "onSelect"

So I'm coding a calendar from the jQuery UI datepicker and this renewing of instance thing is driving me insane.
The goal is to fill the calendar with events from a normal table, with the correct information (Date is given within the table) it works fine. It populates the calendar with events and you can drag and drop them to update the table with correct information. All this is done.
HOWEVER; I want too be able to click on a date, and create a event for the specific date selected, this is easy. However when I click all the previous events get removed because the instance of the Calendar is refreshed. (It's really hard to explain).
The function "initialize" is what gives every TD in the calendar a UL (for dragndrop) with correct "date" attr, and populates the UL with LI's from an external table.
So if I do:
$("#datepicker").datepicker({
firstDay: 1, //Mon-Sun
onSelect: function() { initialize(); }
});
Nothing happens.. But if i do it:
$("#datepicker").datepicker({
firstDay: 1, //Mon-Sun
onSelect: function() { initialize();alert(); }
});
You can actually see the calendar being populated correctly, (the alert prevents code from going further), but when pressing "OK" the calendar instance is refreshed and events are gone.
So what I'd need is an kind of "afterNewInstanceCreated:" command to work from..
Any ideas?
Here is how it looks atm: (JSFiddle), click on a date too see the "magic".
http://jsfiddle.net/N97QA/
Would really appriciate any help

Found answer here:
if you need a "afterShow"-event before jquery-ui version 1.9 you can overwrite the datepicker._updateDatepicker function.
for example:
$(function() {
$.datepicker._updateDatepicker_original = $.datepicker._updateDatepicker;
$.datepicker._updateDatepicker = function(inst) {
$.datepicker._updateDatepicker_original(inst);
var afterShow = this._get(inst, 'afterShow');
if (afterShow)
afterShow.apply((inst.input ? inst.input[0] : null)); // trigger custom callback
}
});
Now the datepicker raise an "afterShow" event after every update from the datepicker element.
Then just use this event in datapicker
$("#calendar").datepicker({
firstDay: 1,
showOtherMonths: true,
selectOtherMonths: true,
afterShow: function() {console.log("it works")}
});

Issue with my datepicker while using .on()

Ok, so I am using a datepicker with FuelCMS and have run into an odd issue and am hoping I can get some help.
I have a admin area that includes a date picker for adding events, but it needs to have the ability to add an unlimited number of events. The code that I have works, but only in an odd way. When the system is loaded it automatically creates one date field, but the datepicker will only come up after you have clicked to add a second field. At this point it will work in either field perfectly fine.
This obviously creates some usability issues so I am hoping that somebody might be able to see where I went wrong.
$("body").on("click", ".datepick", (function () {
$(this).datepick({
dateFormat: "yyyy-mm-dd",
rangeSelect: true
});
}))

You need to use focus instead of click. Using click means you have to click in the input field, then it activates, so you will have to click out of the field and back into it for this to work. You also had $(this).datepick instead of $(this).datepicker.
$("body").on("focus", ".datepick", function () {
$(this).datepicker({
dateFormat: "yyyy-mm-dd",
rangeSelect: true
});
});
JSFiddle

try this code.
$(document).ready(function(){
$("body").on("click", function () {
$(this).datepick({
dateFormat: "yyyy-mm-dd",
rangeSelect: true
});
});
});

How to make a jquery datePicker button image unclickable

I have a jquery UI datePicker in my page. I have a text box on which the date is displayed. The code is:
$("#cal").datepicker({
minDate: new Date(),
defaultDate: new Date(),
buttonImage:
'/images/calendar.gif',
constrainInput: false,
closeText: 'Close',
showButtonPanel: true,
showButtonText: 'Choose a date',
buttonImageOnly : true,
showOn : 'button'
});
$("#till").datepicker('setDate', today);
I want to disable this on some conditions. I use the following code to disable:
$("#cal").datePicker('disable');
It blacks out the text box but the image is still clickable. The problem is in IE, the date picker pop up comes up but does not close when the image button associated with the date picker is clicked.
I also tried to bind a onclick function with the image to make it non-clickable. But that does not work as well.
How can make the date picker image button non-clickable when the date picker is disabled.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Farzana

I'm not sure if it will work, but you should try to change the showOn property right after the disable call.
$("#cal").datepicker('disable');
$("#cal").datepicker( "option", "showOn", 'focus' );
Give it a try!

why dont you hide the button itself by .hide() or adding class or style
or you can add style to make it disable
.addClass or .add to add css

I would use .unwrap(); on the <img> to remove the <a> wrapper. That is if it's wrapped directly in the <a> tag.

Try this:
$("#cal").datepicker("option", "disabled", true);

This works for me -- gotta grab the button and disable it.
$('#MyDatePicker').datepicker({}).next('button').attr('disabled', 'true')

Binding jQuery UI plugin after $.load

I have a function that attaches the jQuery UI DatePicker (with my options) to a passed jQuery object:
function bindDatepicker($obj)
{
if ($obj == null) $obj = $("input.date");
$obj.datepicker(
{
appendText: '(yyyy-mm-dd)',
autoSize: true,
changeMonth: true,
changeYear: true,
closeText: 'Done',
dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd',
defaultDate: '+1m',
minDate: +1,
numberOfMonths: 2
}
);
}
I call this at the beginning of every page to bind it to input elements:
$(function() {
bindDatepicker($("input.date"));
});
This works fine. My problem comes in when I load form elements using $.load(). I cannot attach the DatePicker to any of the loaded elements. For example:
$("#id").load("urlToLoad", function() {
bindDatepicker($("input.date"));
});
Loads the form elements into a div just fine, but will not attach the DatePicker.
Why is this? I am stumped. :(
Thanks,
Tom

You need to use the jQuery .live() method. It will "listen" for any new elements that match your selector criteria.
EDIT: So my original answer was wrong. The .live() method is only for binding events. As you have pointed out in your comments you can't actually bind to an event if there's no event to bind to. So I decided to whip up a sample and see if I could reproduce your problem and I could. What was weirder tho, was if I tried to use an attribute based selector, rather than a class selector, it worked perfectly.
So instead of doing
$('input.date').datepicker();
I stuck a new attribute on there called 'type' and had the following selector:
$('[type=date]').datepicker();
and everything worked.
I have no idea why this is but I can only assume it's a bug with jQuery.