Check Given Date Greater than Current Date JavaScript/JQuery

When you are building any form where user have to enter some date, then you may have requirement to allow only future dates / past dates.

So here i am going to explain how to check whether a user has entered date which is greater than today's date or less than today's date.

Conside you have a TextBox to allow user to enter a date and a Button to submit the data.

Enter Date(in mm-dd-yyyy format) : <input type="text" id="txtdate" />

        <input value="SUBMIT" id="btnsubmit" onclick="checkDate();"/>

The javascript/ JQuery code to validate the date is

 function checkDate() {
            var EnteredDate = document.getElementById("txtdate").value; //for javascript

            var EnteredDate = $("#txtdate").val(); // For JQuery

            var date = EnteredDate.substring(0, 2);
            var month = EnteredDate.substring(3, 5);
            var year = EnteredDate.substring(6, 10);

            var myDate = new Date(year, month - 1, date);

            var today = new Date();

            if (myDate > today) {
                alert("Entered date is greater than today's date ");
            }
            else {
                alert("Entered date is less than today's date ");
            }
        }

In this way you can check wether the entered date is Greater/Less than the current date.

Hope this post helps you.

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