How to check if input date is equal to today's date?

Question

I have a form input with an id of \'date_trans\'. The format for that date input (which is validated server side) can be any of:

• dd/mm/yyyy
• dd-mm-yyyy

Answer 1

for completeness, taken from this solution:

You could use toDateString:

var today = new Date();
var isToday = (today.toDateString() == otherDate.toDateString());

no library dependencies, and looking cleaner than the 'setHours()' approach shown in a previous answer, imho