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HTML

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.1/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/themes/base/jquery-ui.css">
<body>
    <label for="startDate">Date :</label>
    <input name="startDate" id="datepicker" class="date-picker" />
</body>

CSS

.ui-datepicker-calendar {
    display: none;
    }

JavaScript

$(function() {

$('#datepicker').datepicker({
changeMonth: true,
changeYear: true,
dateFormat: 'MM yy',
//maxDate: new Date(currentYear, currentMonth, currentDate),
onClose: function(dateText, inst) {
var month = $("#ui-datepicker-div .ui-datepicker-month :selected").val();
var year = $("#ui-datepicker-div .ui-datepicker-year :selected").val();
$(this).datepicker('setDate', new Date(year, month, 1));
},
beforeShow: function(input, inst) {
if ((datestr = $(this).val()).length > 0) {
year = datestr.substring(datestr.length - 4, datestr.length);
month = jQuery.inArray(datestr.substring(0, datestr.length - 5), $(this).datepicker('option', 'monthNames'));
$(this).datepicker('option', 'defaultDate', new Date(year, month, 1));
$(this).datepicker('setDate', new Date(year, month, 1));
}
}
});
var date = new Date("2013-07-15");
var currentMonth = date.getMonth();
var currentDate = date.getDate();
var currentYear = date.getFullYear();
     $("#datepicker" ).datepicker( "option", "maxDate", new Date(currentYear, currentMonth, currentDate));
});