Date Stamp formatting 2

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I need to change the font size on a date script that I have on my page.

I am using dreamweaver cs5. What is a no frills way to go about this, as I am not a code-warrior.

Or alternatively, Is there an easier way to get a simple dynamic date stamp on a web page.
The page is made in html and hosted off IIS.

Thank You


This is the script that I am using.

<script>
var mydate=new Date()
var year=mydate.getYear()
if (year < 1000)
year+=1900
var day=mydate.getDay()
var month=mydate.getMonth()
var daym=mydate.getDate()
if (daym<10)
daym="0"+daym
var dayarray=new Array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday")
var montharray=new Array("January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December")
document.write("<small><font color='000000' face='Arial'><b>"+dayarray[day]+", "+montharray[month]+" "+daym+", "+year+"</b></font></small>")

</script>

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[vacunita]

I would change your script to output modern CSS style properties rather than font and color tags:

document.write("<span style='font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:bold; [red]font-size:24px;[/red]'>"+dayarray[day]+", "+montharray[month]+" "+daym+", "+year+"</span>");

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[Vragabond]

Or even better, just assign a class to the output element and style it in your stylesheet. So that when you change your mind on how it should look, you can quickly change it without venturing back into JS.

document.write("<span class='date'>"+dayarray[day]+", "+montharray[month]+" "+daym+", "+year+"</span>");

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[TekSupporter]

Thank you all,

I will try those options and post the results.





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[TekSupporter]

Thank you both for your help. I went with vacunita's suggestion. However, in the long run, assigning a class would save me time/headache whenit comes to changes.

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[TekSupporter]

done!

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