# Loading todays date to Form Fields. Please Help!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-todays-date-to-form-fields-please-help/268911>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [August 20, 2008, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-todays-date-to-form-fields-please-help/268911 "2008-08-20T10:15:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![wispas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9de0a6/32.png) [@wispas](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wispas)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-todays-date-to-form-fields-please-help/268911/1 "2008-08-20T10:15:08Z")

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Hi,

I have got this form with a date, month and year drop down menu.

![](http://www.bloggot.co.uk/images/drop.jpg)

This is what I want it to do. Load todays date into the drop down. Currently, I have to do this manually by doing:

\<option selected=""\>\</option\>

Is there any sort of JavaScript that would do this for me? - Automatically populate my form fields with todays date, month and year.

Andrew