Setting Date Picker to select a Birthdate in the past MaterializeCss

Question

I am trying to use MaterializeCss date-picker form field to set a birthday.

  $('.datepicker').pickadate({
    selectMonths: true, // Creates a dropdown to control month
    selectYears: 15 // Creates a dropdown of 15 years to control year
  });

is what i am currently using, however this gives a total of 15 years in total 7 years before todays year and 7 years after. how can I only allow for present year - 80 years for example..

if I do something like:

  $('.datepicker').pickadate({
    selectMonths: true, // Creates a dropdown to control month
    selectYears: -15 // Creates a dropdown of 15 years to control year
  });

the year menu totally disappears.

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

You can use the max property to limit the date range to the current year, like so.

var date = new Date();
var today = '12/31/' + date.getFullYear();

$('.datepicker').pickadate({
  format: 'mm/dd/yyyy',
  selectMonths: true,
  selectYears: 15,
  max: today,
});

Also see http://amsul.ca/pickadate.js/date/ for more options.