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HTML

<script src="http://www.mochamedia.co.za/clients/lpr/admin/assets/js/bootstrap-datepicker.js"></script>

Date: <input type="text" name="" class="datepicker" />

CSS

/*!
 * Datepicker for Bootstrap
 *
 * Copyright 2012 Stefan Petre
 * Improvements by Andrew Rowls
 * Licensed under the Apache License v2.0
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 */
.datepicker {
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  padding: 4px;
  margin-top: 1px;
  -webkit-border-radius: 4px;
  -moz-border-radius: 4px;
  border-radius: 4px;
  /*.dow {
		border-top: 1px solid #ddd !important;
	}*/

}
.datepicker:before {
  content: '';
  display: inline-block;
  border-left: 7px solid transparent;
  border-right: 7px solid transparent;
  border-bottom: 7px solid #ccc;
  border-bottom-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
  position: absolute;
  top: -7px;
  left: 6px;
}
.datepicker:after {
  content: '';
  display: inline-block;
  border-left: 6px solid transparent;
  border-right: 6px solid transparent;
  border-bottom: 6px solid #ffffff;
  position: absolute;
  top: -6px;
  left: 7px;
}
.datepicker > div {
  display: none;
}
.datepicker.days div.datepicker-days {
  display: block;
}
.datepicker.months div.datepicker-months {
  display: block;
}
.datepicker.years div.datepicker-years {
  display: block;
}
.datepicker table {
  width: 100%;
  margin: 0;
}
.datepicker td,
.datepicker th {
  text-align: center;
  width: 20px;
  height: 20px;
  -webkit-border-radius: 4px;
  -moz-border-radius: 4px;
  border-radius: 4px;
}
.datepicker td.day:hover {
  background: #eeeeee;
  cursor: pointer;
}
.datepicker td.old,
.datepicker td.new {
  color: #999999;
}
.datepicker td.disabled,
.datepicker td.disabled:hover {
  background: none;
  color: #999999;
  cursor: default;
}
.datepicker td.active,
.datepicker td.active:hover,
.datepicker td.active.disabled,
.datepicker td.active.disabled:hover {
  background-color: #006dcc;
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #0088cc, #0044cc);
  background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #0088cc, #0044cc);
  background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#0088cc), to(#0044cc));
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,...

JavaScript

var d = new Date();

var month = d.getMonth()+1;
var day = d.getDate();

var output =((''+month).length<2 ? '0' : '') + month +  '/' + ((''+day).length<2 ? '0' : '') + day + '/' + d.getFullYear();
    
$('.datepicker').datepicker();

$('.datepicker').val(output);