如何设置bootstrap-datepicker的日期？

Question

I've set up this JSFiddle showing my problem.

$('#dp3').datepicker();
var date = new Date('2009-05-05');
$('#dp3').datepicker('setDate', date);

It seems like a rather simple thing to do, and I feel I may be overlooking something, but this should work, shouldn't it? I'm simply trying to set the date of the calendar to a specific day.

I know there are methods to use to set the start date in the HTML mark-up, but this is not what I need to do. This needs to be done in JavaScript.

There's documentation here that I looked over, but the "setDate" option doesn't seem to do as it says it does.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try $('#dp3').datepicker('setValue', date); or $('#dp3').datepicker('update', date);

Answer 2

Try this...

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('#dp3').datepicker();
    var date = new Date('2009-05-05');
    $('#dp3').datepicker('setDate', date);
});

See you DEMO