Date in text field

nikko50

12-07-2004, 02:30 PM

Hi friends.
How can I display the date in a text field?? I need the date in mm/dd/yy format. Thanks
Tracy

Brandoe85

12-07-2004, 04:20 PM

try this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 STRICT//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title></title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function curDate()
{
var now = new Date();
var day = now.getDay();
var date = now.getDate();
var year = now.getFullYear();
var month = now.getMonth();
var hours = now.getHours();
var minutes = now.getMinutes();
var seconds = now.getSeconds();
var days = new Array();
days[0] = "Sunday";
days[1] = "Monday";
days[2] = "Tuesday";
days[3] = "Wednesday";
days[4] = "Thursday";
days[5] = "Friday";
days[6] = "Saturday";
var display = days[day] + " " + (month +1) + "/" + date + "/" + year;
document.forms[0].date.value = display;
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="curDate();">
<form action="">
<p><input type="text" size="30" name="date"/></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

nikko50

12-07-2004, 04:45 PM

Hi Brandio, I have the script below that works fine except I would like the year as "yy".

<script language="Javascript">

var today = new Date()
var month = today.getMonth() + 1
var day = today.getDate()
var year = today.getFullYear()
var s = "/"

document.date.forms.value = month + s + day + s + year

</script>

Brandoe85

12-07-2004, 05:06 PM

nikko50

12-07-2004, 06:07 PM

Hi Brandoe,
Why do I get object in null or undefined error with the below script....

<script language="Javascript">

var today = new Date();
var month = today.getMonth() + 1;
var day = today.getDate();
var year = today.getFullYear();
var s = "/";
var y = year.toString();
var yy = y.substring(2,4);

document.theForm.date.value = month + s + day + s + yy;

</script>
<form method="POST" name="theForm" >
<input type="text" name="date" size="20">
</form>

Willy Duitt

12-07-2004, 06:20 PM

Because the form and date input have not yet been written to the page...
Move the script below the input and it should work....