change date format from jquery

Question

I have this date, that I get from jquery

Wed Oct 30 2013 09:05:17 GMT-0800 (Hora estándar Pacífico (México))

that I get this function

var date = new Date();
var newdate = new Date(date);
newdate.setDate(newdate.getDate() + 7);
var nd = new Date(newdate);
$('#vigencia_receta_11').val(nd);

But I only need the date not the time, I want to format the date like this "DD/MM/YYYY"

Answer 1

A couple of options.

If you're OK with including jQueryUI: $("#vigencia_receta_11").val($.datepicker.formatDate('dd/M/yy', nd));

Otherwise, the jQuery dateFormat plugin does something similar: $("#vigencia_receta_11").val($.format.date(nd, 'dd/M/yy'));