JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.eyecon.ro/bootstrap-datepicker/css/bootstrap.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.eyecon.ro/bootstrap-datepicker/css/datepicker.css">
<script src="http://www.eyecon.ro/bootstrap-datepicker/js/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="https://raw.github.com/eternicode/bootstrap-datepicker/master/js/bootstrap-datepicker.js"></script>
<!-- Le HTML5 shim, for IE6-8 support of HTML elements -->
    <!--[if lt IE 9]>
      <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
    <![endif]-->
<input type="text" class="span2" value="02-16-2012" id="dp1" >

CSS

.container {
        background: #fff;
    }
    #alert {
        display: none;
    }

JavaScript

$('#dp1').datepicker({
    format: 'mm-dd-yyyy',
    startDate: '-15d',
    endDate: '+0d' // there's no convenient "right now" notation yet
});