Datepicker date undefined

I'm using bootstrap-datepicker, and I'm getting this error message:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'split' of undefined

I don't think I have an old version of datepicker.js because I got the cdn from their website.

This is how I'm currently instantiating the datepicker and click event:

j('.fa-calendar').datepicker({
    startDate: '-3d'
})

j(document).on('click', '.fa-calendar', function(){
    j('.fa-calendar').datepicker("show");
});

Answer

July 17, 2014

KyleMit

They should be working as in this example:

$('.datepicker').datepicker({
    startDate: '-3d'
})

$(document).on('click', '.fa-calendar', function(){
    $(this).closest('.input-group')
           .find('input.form-control')
           .datepicker("show");
});

<link href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.2/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<link href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-datepicker/1.3.1/css/datepicker.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<link href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.2/js/bootstrap.js"></script>
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-datepicker/1.3.1/js/bootstrap-datepicker.js"></script>


<p>start with datepicker:</p>
<input class="form-control datepicker" type="text" /><br/>

<p>start with icon:</p>
<div class="input-group">
  <input type="text" class="form-control" >
  <span class="input-group-addon" >
    <i class="fa fa-calendar"></i>
  </span>
</div>

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