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Mohammed Ahmed Hussien
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Set min Date to Today in Date Input Field, By Tag Helper in ASP.NET Core

Here I will show you how to set date input field's min date to today by Tag Helper in asp.net core.
Create a new class name it InputDateTagHelper (or any name you like it).
Update the InputDateTagHelper.cs class with the following code statements:

[HtmlTargetElement("input", Attributes ="is-accept-old-day")]
    public class InputDateTagHelper : TagHelper
    {
        [HtmlAttributeName("is-accept-old-day")]
        public bool OldDay { get; set; } = false;
        public override void Process(TagHelperContext context, TagHelperOutput output)
        {
            if (!OldDay)
            {

                var dateTime = DateTime.Now;
                var dd = dateTime.Day;
                var mm = dateTime.Month;
                var yyyy = dateTime.Year;

                string newDay = Convert.ToString(dd);
                string newMonth = Convert.ToString(mm);

                if (dd < 10)
                {
                    newDay =  $"0{newDay}";
                }
                if(mm < 10)
                {
                    newMonth = $"0{mm}";
                }
                var today = $"{yyyy}-{newMonth}-{newDay}";
                output.Attributes.SetAttribute("min", today);
            }
        }
    }
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The previous code is accept a boolean field OldDay if the field is false then set a min attribute to Date Input field and set it's value to date of today.

To test this new tag helper in your .cshtml file, you have to register it inside _ViewImport.cshtml file first, Here is the code:

@addTagHelper Platform.Infrastructure.*, Platform
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The Platform is my ProjectName and the Infrastructure is the folder that I put the InputDateTagHelper.cs class inside it

So, now you can use the InputDateTagHelper like so:

<input type="date" is-accept-old-day="false" />
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Here I force the input field to accept the today as a min date by passing false to is-accept-old-day field

The HTML output is

<input type="date" min="2021-08-13">
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