title: jquery ui date picker with default text in textbox
body: <p>is there any way we can have a default text value (not some date but some sort of label, which is displayed inside textbox, but gets changed to selected date if the user selects some date.</p>
  
  <pre><code>// I want the MM/DD/YYYY to be displayed inside text box if no date is selected by user
  
      &lt;input id="datePicker" value ="MM/DD/YYYY"&gt;
      $(function() { 
      $( "#datepicker" ).datepicker( )});
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried adding a dummy input box with mm/dd/yyyy and showing and hiding the same using focus and blur methods, but its not working, properly.
  Is there any elegant way to achieve this? Any help is appreciated.
  PS: I am not using html5 and i need this thing to be working in ie 8 ,9.
  it should look something like this
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/N9CfB.png" alt="text box sample"></p>