Change Date Picker programmatically with Javascript

• twostripe

• November 1, 2017 at 6:44 pm

I’m trying to populate a date_picker after the page loads with js (jQuery) but it’s not updating. What element should I be changing?

I tried

$('.acf-date_picker input.input-alt').val("11/01/2017").change();

I’m not seeing the change in the hidden field (.input-alt) when I inspect it, nor is it visible on the screen.

• John Huebner

• November 1, 2017 at 11:01 pm

See the first answer here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31202132/set-value-of-datepicker

also, make sure you do this on document ready of on the acf ready action https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/adding-custom-javascript-fields/