Changing minDate and maxDate on the fly using jQuery DatePicker

Question

You have a couple of options…

1) You need to call the destroy() method not remove() so…

$('#date').datepicker('destroy');

Then call your method to recreate the datepicker object.

2) You can update the property of the existing object via

$('#date').datepicker('option', 'minDate', new Date(startDate));
$('#date').datepicker('option', 'maxDate', new Date(endDate));

or…

$('#date').datepicker('option', { minDate: new Date(startDate),
                                  maxDate: new Date(endDate) });