jQuery UI: Datepicker set year range dropdown to 100 years

Question

Using the Datepicker the year drop down by default shows only 10 years. The user has to click the last year in order to get more years added.

How can we set the initial range to be 100 years so that the user will see a large list by default?

    function InitDatePickers() {
        $(".datepicker").datepicker({
            changeMonth: true,
            changeYear: true,
            showButtonPanel: true,
            maxDate: '@maxDate',
            minDate: '@minDate'
        });
    }

Answer 1

You can set the year range using this option per documentation here http://api.jqueryui.com/datepicker/#option-yearRange

yearRange: '1950:2013', // specifying a hard coded year range

or this way

yearRange: "-100:+0", // last hundred years

From the Docs

Default: "c-10:c+10"

The range of years displayed in the year drop-down: either relative to today's year ("-nn:+nn"), relative to the currently selected year ("c-nn:c+nn"), absolute ("nnnn:nnnn"), or combinations of these formats ("nnnn:-nn"). Note that this option only affects what appears in the drop-down, to restrict which dates may be selected use the minDate and/or maxDate options.