Link for populating today's date in a form

I am using Java and JSF for creating a form and I need to click on a link which would say Today's date and clicking it will populate a form field with todays date.How should I code it out. I was planning to use JavaScript! Any help a开发者_C百科ppreciated

<input id=Date name=Date value="">
<div style="cursor: pointer;" onclick="JavaScript: document.getElementById('Date').value = new Date();">Today's Date</div>

It sounds like you need a date picker that defaults to today's date. Try the jQuery Datepicker.

Not exactly an answer to your question, but why would you want to collect todays date from user interface. I mean, it's not like the user will have to choose between different todays, right?

Why not just use new Date() in the method called by your action in Java layer.