Datepicker inside a handlebars template - jquery-ui

Question

I am trying to figure out a way to have jqueryui datepicker inside handlebars template. So far I have the following that doesn't seem to work:
> <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.10.0/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
> <script>
> $(function () {
> $(".datePicker").datepicker();
> }); </script>
<script id="template-row" type="text/x-handlebars-template">
<div class="returnRow{{#if altRow}} returnRow-alt{{/if}} clearfix">
<input type="hidden" class="return-id" value="{{ID}}" />
<input type='hidden' class='return-last-updated' value='{{LastUpdated}}' />
<div class="pull-left returnRow-date">
<input type="text" class="datePicker" />
</div>
<div class="pull-left returnRow-return">
<input type="text" style="width: 90%" class="return-value" onchange='SaveSingleRow(this)' value="{{textValue}}" />
</div>
<div class="pull-left returnRow-message">
<span class="row-message"></span>
</div>
</div>
</script>

Answer 1

I think you have two options:
Bind the datepicker after adding the filled-in template to the DOM.
Bind the datepicker to a jQuery-wrapped version of the filled-in template and then add that jQuery object to the DOM.
The first option looks like this:
var t = Handlebars.compile($('#template-row').html());
$(something_already_in_the_dom).append(t(data));
$('.datePicker').datepicker();
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/ambiguous/w2wyU/7/
The second option looks like this:
var t = Handlebars.compile($('#template-row').html());
var $html = $(t(data));
$html.find('.datePicker').datepicker();
$(something_already_in_the_dom).append($html);
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/ambiguous/PMP8R/
Note that both options take place outside the template. The underlying problem is that .datepicker needs to be called on a jQuery object but everything is only text inside the template, you can't have a jQuery wrapped version of that text until after the template has been processed and filled in.