jQuery Date Picker - disable past dates

Question

I am trying to have a date Range select using the UI date picker.

in the from/to field people should not be able to view or select dates previous to the present day.

This is my code:

$(function() {
    var dates = $( "#from, #to" ).datepicker({
        defaultDate: "+1w",
        changeMonth: true,
        numberOfMonths: 1,
        onSelect: function( selectedDate ) {
            var option = this.id == "from" ? "minDate" : "maxDate",
                instance = $( this ).data( "datepicker" ),
                date = $.datepicker.parseDate(
                    instance.settings.dateFormat ||
                    $.datepicker._defaults.dateFormat,
                    selectedDate, instance.settings );
            dates.not( this ).datepicker( "option", option, date );
        }
    });
});

Can some one tell me how to disable dates previous the to the present date.

Answer 1

set startDate attribute of datepicker, it works, below is the working code

$(function(){
$('#datepicker').datepicker({
    startDate: '-0m'
    //endDate: '+2d'
}).on('changeDate', function(ev){
    $('#sDate1').text($('#datepicker').data('date'));
    $('#datepicker').datepicker('hide');
});
})

Answer 2

$( "#date" ).datetimepicker({startDate:new Date()}).datetimepicker('update', new Date());

new Date() : function get the todays date previous date are locked. 100% working

Answer 3

$('#datepicker-dep').datepicker({
    minDate: 0
});

minDate:0 works for me.

Answer 4

you have to declare current date into variables like this

 $(function() {
    var date = new Date();
    var currentMonth = date.getMonth();
    var currentDate = date.getDate();
    var currentYear = date.getFullYear();
    $('#datepicker').datepicker({
    minDate: new Date(currentYear, currentMonth, currentDate)
    });
})

Answer 5

Just to add to this:

If you also need to prevent the user to manually type a date in the past, this is a possible solution. This is what we ended up doing (based on @Nicola Peluchetti's answer)

var dateToday = new Date();

$("#myDatePickerInput").change(function () {
    var updatedDate = $(this).val();
    var instance = $(this).data("datepicker");
    var date = $.datepicker.parseDate(instance.settings.dateFormat || $.datepicker._defaults.dateFormat, updatedDate, instance.settings);

    if (date < dateToday) {
        $(this).datepicker("setDate", dateToday);
    }
});

What this does is to change the value to today's date if the user manually types a date in the past.

Answer 6

jQuery API documentation - datepicker

The minimum selectable date. When set to null, there is no minimum.

Multiple types supported:

Date: A date object containing the minimum date.
Number: A number of days from today. For example 2 represents two days from today and -1 represents yesterday.
String: A string in the format defined by the dateFormat option, or a relative date.
Relative dates must contain value and period pairs; valid periods are y for years, m for months, w for weeks, and d for days. For example, +1m +7d represents one month and seven days from today.

In order not to display previous dates other than today

$('#datepicker').datepicker({minDate: 0});