Defaulting a date field in ColdFusion

Question

I want to default a date input control to today

<cfoutput>
    <input type="date" class="form-control" name="dtStart" value="#LSDateFormat(now(), 'mm/dd/yyyy')#" required />
    <br />
    My Date: #LSDateFormat(now(), 'mm/dd/yyyy')#
</cfoutput>

All I get out of this is

Is there a way to get it to default to today?

Possible duplicate of [Is there any way to change input type="date" format?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7372038/is-there-any-way-to-change-input-type-date-format) — rrk, Aug 02 '19 at 06:45
`type="date"` fields are open for browser to implement based on browser/system locale/settings. Also if the `value` attribute should be in `yyyy-mm-dd` format. Then the default value will appear in the input field(formatted based on the browser setting). — rrk, Aug 02 '19 at 06:51
This is not a dup because I am asking about how to set the value as opposed to how it is displayed. — James A Mohler, Aug 02 '19 at 18:35
Possible duplicate of [How to set input type date's default value to today?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6982692/how-to-set-input-type-dates-default-value-to-today) — Alex, Aug 02 '19 at 20:12

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 02 '19 at 11:09

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You can use code like below ( Set mask as 'yyyy-mm-dd' ) , It will show default value as the current date for your input date field.

<cfoutput>
    <input type="date" class="form-control" name="dtStart" value="#LSDateFormat(now(),'yyyy-mm-dd')#" required />
    <br />
    My Date: #LSDateFormat(now(), 'mm/dd/yyyy')#
</cfoutput>

Code result as screenshot

edited Aug 02 '19 at 11:09

Ravi B

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answered Aug 02 '19 at 10:30

Saravana Kumar

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This is very useful. I didn't know about the lsDateFormat() function until now. Thanks a bunch. – Millhorn Apr 30 '20 at 01:01

Defaulting a date field in ColdFusion

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