It seems simple enough, but nothing I try is working. I have a
jquery ui datepicker, I use val() to get the value of that input on button click(), then log it. The click event is working. I can log a string I write myself, but when I pass console.log() the variable that stores the datepicker value...nothing. I've tried using html() and text() instead of val(), still nothing
//JS
$(function(){
$("button").button();
$("#date").datepicker();
var date = $("#date").val();
$("button").click(function(){
// this logs
console.log("event working");
// but this logs nothing
console.log(date);
});//close click
});//closes function
//HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://www.parsecdn.com/js/parse-1.2.8.min.js"></script>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.
jquery.com/ui/1.10.3/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://myDomain/bn/lbStyle.css"/>
<script src="http://myDomain/index.js"></script>
<title>
Welcome to The Bringer Network
</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="dialog">
<p>Date <input type="text" id="date"/></p>
<button>Submit</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>
