show monthNameShort in datepicker

Question

I'm using datepicker of jquery ui now it show the month names like "March" I want show them in monthNamesShort format like "Mar" How can i do?

thanks

Answer 1

Use an uppercase 'M' in the month part of the format string.

how can i format jquery datepicker as "25-JAN-2009"

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Edit

I'm sure there is a nicer way, but what about manually giving it the month names?

$('#member_dob').datepicker({
            monthNames: ['Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun','Jul','Aug','Sep','Oct','Nov','Dec']
});