title: Setting minimum date in to todays date in MVC 4
body: <p>In my view I am allowing the user to enter a start date for a project but I need to validate the HTML to ensure they do not enter a date before today's date, I am aware of min="2015-09-21", but this will not help me in the future, can some please recommend the best way to solve this problem.</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;label for="text2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;3: Hand-in Date:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/label&gt;
  &lt;input type="date" id="date1" name="date1"  &gt;</code></pre>
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