 <p>Bootstrap datepicker (the first result from bootstrap datepickcer search) has a method to get the selected date.<br> <a href="http://bootstrap-datepicker.readthedocs.org/en/release/methods.html#getdate">http://bootstrap-datepicker.readthedocs.org/en/release/methods.html#getdate</a> </p> <p>getDate:<br> Returns a localized date object representing the internal date object of the first datepicker in the selection.<br> For multidate pickers, returns the latest date selected.</p> <pre><code>$('.datepicker').datepicker("getDate") </code></pre> <p>or</p> <pre><code>$('.datepicker').datepicker("getDate").valueOf() </code></pre>