Question

How can I compare a date input of format “MM/DD/YYYY” with the Date() function in Javascript?

For example:

if (InputDate < TodaysDate){
  alert("You entered past date")
}
else if (InputDate > TodaysDate){
  alert("You entered future date")
}
else if (InputDate = TodaysDate){
  alert("You entered present date")
}
else{
  alert("please enter a date")
}

Answer 1

Thanks all! Didnt find any of the above to work, but got it to work finally. Had to hack a little 😉

I did it by splitting the Date using getMonth, getDate and getYear and Parsing it and then comparing it. It works just as I want:

Date.parse(document.getElementById("DateId").value) < Date.parse(dateToday.getMonth() + "/" + dateToday.getDate() + "/" + dateToday.getYear())