How to remove default selected date in DatePicker materialUI?

Question

I am using date pickers in my project https://material-ui-pickers.dev/demo/datepicker, I have used a calendar with no year selection. When I open the calendar by clicking a textbox for the very first time, I don't want today's date to be selected and want it to be empty like this (show calendar). But if I select any date and close the calendar then the selected date should remain and it should not get cleared. Can anyone help me how do I achieve this??

const [selectedDate, handleDateChange] = useState(new Date());

<DatePicker
  disableToolbar
  variant="inline"
  label="Only calendar"
  helperText="No year selection"
  value={selectedDate}
  onChange={handleDateChange}
 />

Answer 1

as you did not provide sample code, I think you have set the state variable default to current date, like as given in the example:

const [selectedDate, handleDateChange] = useState(new Date());

I would suggest to try by setting it to null eg:

const [selectedDate, handleDateChange] = useState(null);