jQuery UI datepicker 'setDate' method not working

I'm having some issues with datepicker in jQuery.

I'm trying to put the today date in a field which is a datepicker.

I've tried with:

$('#fecha_alta').datepicker('setDate', new Date());
console.log($('#fecha_alta').datepicker(开发者_如何学Python'getDate'));

And

$('#fecha_alta').datepicker('setDate', '+0');
console.log($('#fecha_alta').datepicker('getDate'));

But always log null and also the input shows empty.

What's wrong?

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The following code works:

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('#datepicker').datepicker('setDate', new Date());
});

(tested on the jQueryUI datepicker demo page)

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If you need to set the date to the current one by default, then you may want to set it at start, when creating the widget:

$('#datepicker').datepick({
  defaultDate: new Date()
});

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you can set date like this as well

$('.date-pick').datePicker().val(new Date()).trigger('change')