Hi - thanks for this. It works great in Firefox, however there seems to be a problem in IE8. The rest of the page after the field using the date picker plugin is completely blank. I downloaded the demo app on this page to confirm it wasn't my implementation of it that had bungled something. I checked the error details for the IE page which stated: "HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container element before the child element is closed (KB927917)" Does anybody have any ideas on a possible fix for this? I have been forced to drop the plugin in the mean time. Any help appreciated.