Hello Friends, In this post, you will see an example that helps you set today's date in lighting component. so let's see the example.

Set today's date in lightning component

For this example we used lightning:input type="date" element.

SetTodaysDate.cmp

 <aura:component implements="force:appHostable,flexipage:availableForAllPageTypes,flexipage:availableForRecordHome,force:hasRecordId,force:lightningQuickAction" access="global" >
    <aura:handler name="init" value="{!this}" action="{!c.doInit}"/>
    <lightning:card title="Set Today Date" iconName="action:announcement">
        <lightning:input style="margin-left:20px;width:20%" type="date" aura:id="txtDate" dateStyle="short" label="Today's Date" value=""/>
    </lightning:card>
 </aura:component>
SetTodaysDateController.js
 ({
    doInit : function(component, event, helper) {        
        var today = $A.localizationService.formatDate(new Date(), "YYYY-MM-DD");
        component.find("txtDate").set("v.value",today);        
    }
 })

Output:

 

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