date function with span id return issue.

jgraves13 · Mar 26, 2007

I am trying to return a 4 digit current year where the span id exist in the code. I am not sure what I am doing wrong with this code. I was hoping someone can let me know where I went wrong.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">[/URL]
<html xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"[/URL] >
<head>
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
  <script type="text/javascript">
   function getYearEnd()
   {
    var d = new Date()
    var d.getFullYear()
    var YearEnd = document.getElementById('txtYear').value(d.getFullYear());
    
   /* //This is testing script to verify working 
    document.write("This is in scrip tag Copyright 1997-")
    document.write(d.getFullYear())
   */
   
   // This should return/write 4 Char year
    //document.getElementById('txtYear').value(d.getFullYear());
	document.getElementById('txtYear').innerHTML = YearEnd;
        
    </script> 
    <!-- <script type="text/javascript" src="/YearEnd.js"></script> -->
</head>
<body onload="getYearEnd()">

<p>simple Copyright 1997- <span id="txtYear" /></p> 

</body>
</html>

thanks
~ JG

BabyJeffy · Mar 26, 2007

We don't self-close span tags in HTML! Change it to use a regular close:

Code:

<span id="txtYear"></span>

Your function would work written like this:

Code:

function getYearEnd() {
    var d = new Date()
    if (document.getElementById('txtYear')) {
        document.getElementById('txtYear').innerHTML = d.getFullYear();
    }
}

Cheers,
Jeff

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jgraves13 · Mar 26, 2007

Jeff,

Thank you!!! it work just fine...

JG

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