I have an MVC application with a simple control to all selection of All Dates or selecting a Date Range.

The radio buttons have an onclick handler to enable/disable the dat pickers. All work well so far.

When I try to set the correct context state for the datepickers after doing a POST I cannot get the jQuery selector to return the radio buttons checked value.

The code is as follows:

   <%= Html.RadioButton("DateSelection.AllDates", "AllDates", Model.AllDates == "AllDates", new { onclick = "setReadOnly(this);" })%>ALL Dates&nbsp;
        <%= Html.RadioButton("DateSelection.AllDates", "Selection", Model.AllDates == "Selection", new { onclick = "setReadOnly(this);" })%>Selection
        <%= Html.DatePicker("DateSelection.startdate", Model.StartDate, "", "") %>
        &nbsp;To&nbsp;<%= Html.DatePicker("DateSelection.enddate", Model.EndDate, "", "") %><br />

The javascript is as follows:

<script type="text/jscript" >
function setReadOnly(obj) {
    if (obj.value == "Selection") {
        $('#DateSelection_startdate').css('backgroundColor', '#ffffff')
            .removeAttr('readonly')
            .datepicker('enable');
        $('#DateSelection_enddate').css('backgroundColor', '#ffffff')
            .removeAttr('readonly')
            .datepicker('enable');
    }
    else {
        $('#DateSelection_startdate').css('backgroundColor', '#eeeeee')
            .attr('readonly', 'readonly')
            .val('')
            .datepicker('disable');
        $('#DateSelection_enddate').css('backgroundColor', '#eeeeee')
            .attr('readonly', 'readonly')
            .val('')
            .datepicker('disable');
    }
} 

<script type="text/jscript">
$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#DateSelection_startdate').datepicker('disable').css('backgroundColor', '#eeeeee')
            .attr('readonly', 'readonly')
            .val('');
    $('#DateSelection_enddate').datepicker('disable').css('backgroundColor', '#eeeeee')
            .attr('readonly', 'readonly')
            .val('');
    var selected = $('#DateSelection_AllDates:checked');
    setReadOnly(selected);
});

The javascript line that is causing the problem is

var selected = $('#DateSelection_AllDates:checked');

which will NOT return the checked radio button.

Using

var selected = $('#DateSelection_AllDates');

will return the first radio button value as expected i.e. applying the ':checked' filter ALWAYS returns undefined.

Can anyone see anything wrong here?