#startdate is the text item in which date is returned. i also tried to put these code in header part of page like as
<head>
<script src="/js/jquery-ui-1.8.15.custom.min.js"></script> <script src="/js/jquery-1.6.2.min.js"></script><link rel="/styles/stylesheet" href="jquery/jqueryCalendar.css">
jQuery(function() { jQuery( "#startDate" ).datepicker(); });
</head>
still not worked???