title: How to enable past dates in bootstrap datepicker
body: <p>I am seeing a lot of questions in stack overflow regarding disabling past dates in bootstrap datepicker.</p>
  
  <p>But i want to enable past dates in bootstrap datepicker.</p>
  
  <p>Here is my code, and i don't know what i miss in this.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;input type='text' id="campaignCreateDate" data-date-format="dd-M-yyyy" class="form-control datePicker" name="proposed_start_date"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and this is my js script</p>
  
  <pre><code>$('#campaignCreateDate').datepicker({
          todayHighlight: true,
          autoclose: true,
          format: 'dd-M-yyyy',            
      }).datepicker('setDate',new Date());
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I also tried with only a simple tag as below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;input type='text' id="testStartDate" class="form-control datePicker" name="proposed_start_date"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>without any code in js, but still the past dates are not shown.</p>
  
  <p>i.e, if today is 04/12/2018, i am not able to select 03/12/2018 or any dates before that.</p>