Defaulting a date field in ColdFusion

I want to default a date input control to today

<cfoutput>
    <input type="date" class="form-control" name="dtStart" value="#LSDateFormat(now(), 'mm/dd/yyyy')#" required />
    <br />
    My Date: #LSDateFormat(now(), 'mm/dd/yyyy')#
</cfoutput>

All I get out of this is

Is there a way to get it to default to today?

You can use code like below ( Set mask as 'yyyy-mm-dd' ) , It will show default value as the current date for your input date field.

<cfoutput>
    <input type="date" class="form-control" name="dtStart" value="#LSDateFormat(now(),'yyyy-mm-dd')#" required />
    <br />
    My Date: #LSDateFormat(now(), 'mm/dd/yyyy')#
</cfoutput>

Code result as screenshot