Set the Selected Date

The wijdatepager widget highlights the currently selected date. Simply set the selectedDate option.

Complete the following steps to set the selected date:

Create a new ASP.NET MVC 5 Wijmo Application (see Creating an MVC Tools Project).
Navigate to the Solution Explorer, expand the Shared folder inside the Views folder, and double-click _Layout to open the file.
Add the following markup within the <body> tags of the page, just after @RenderBody():
<div id="datepager"></div>
This markup will add content for a datepager widget to the page. In the next step, you'll initialize the datepager.
After the closing </div> tag you added in the previous step, enter the following jQuery script to initialize the wijdatepager widget and set the selectedDate option:
```
<script type="text/javascript">
    $("#datepager").wijdatepager({ selectedDate: new Date(2015, 11, 21) });
</script>
```
At run time the datepager will appear with 11/21/2015 selected.

What You've Accomplished

Press F5 to run the application, and notice that the datepager appear with 11/21/2015 selected.