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Display Javascript Function Next to Inputbox 2

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FireGeek21

FireGeek21

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Hi,

I have been working with HTML for a while but have done nothing fancy (yet). Starting to incorporate some javascript into my HTML. My first task is to display a person's age based on the birthdate entered into an input box. I can't seem to get the age to show next to the input box. Here is the code I have been working with. Thanks for the help!!!
HTML: 
<html>
<head>
<title>Display Age Calculation</title>

<script type="text/javascript">
function calcAge(birthMonth, birthDay, birthYear)
{
todayDate = new Date();
todayYear = todayDate.getFullYear();
todayMonth = todayDate.getMonth();
todayDay = todayDate.getDate();
age = todayYear - birthYear; 
if (todayMonth < birthMonth - 1)
{
age;
}
if (birthMonth - 1 == todayMonth && todayDay < birthDay)
{
age;
}
return age;
}
</script>
</head>

<body>

<form>
<input type="text" name="birthdate" onblur="calcAge()"><div  id="agecalc">Your Age: </div>
</form>

</body>
</html>

FireGeek
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A div is a block level element. Which means it occupies the entire width of a horizontal row with a line break above and below it.

Use an inline element as the text container.

Chris.

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Thanks for the response Chris. I guess the issue is not so much where the age shows as it is that the age isn't showing at all. Not sure if the Javascript is working which is why this was also posted in the Javascript forum - someone deleted the post from that forum!

UGH!

FireGeek
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Your function doesn't seem to be writing out your age value anywhere at all.

Perhaps incorporating something to write the age out may be useful.

Code: 
document.getElementById("agecalc").innerHTML = age;



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Thank you for the response Vacunita. Where would be the best location for your recommended line of code?

FireGeek
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instead of return age;

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Anywhere after you've set the value of age, probably best before the return(), or instead of it.

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Hey folks... Still can't seem to ge the age to show next to the input box. Not sure what else I need to try. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks

FireGeek
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Still can't seem to ge the age to show next to the input box.
Click to expand...

Define the above

It is not showing adjacent to?
OR
It is not showing at all?

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It is not showing at all.

FireGeek
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Have you tried actually passing any values to the function??


Because the code you posted does not get any values from anywhere at all.

Chris.

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I am at a loss as to how to do this, how to proceed.

FireGeek
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The function needs three values passing to it in the correct order (month, Day, year)

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General Programming 101:

If you define your function to expect 3 parameters:
calcAge(birthMonth, birthDay, birthYear)

You need to pass it 3 paramters.

You aren't passing it anything.
onblur="calcAge(__)"

If what you want is to get the information from the input itself, then you need to address the input.

Lets start simple, and simply pass the actual input to the function so we can use it.:

Code: 
function calcAge([b]inputObj[/b])
{
...
}

Then in your call:
Code: 
<input type="text" name="birthdate" onblur="calcAge([COLOR=#204A87][b]this[/b][/color])">

"this" is a special word. It references the object that the code is running in. In this case the input.

Now that we have the input, we can get its value.
Code: 
function calcAge(inputObj)
{
[tab]alert(inputObj.value);  
}

This should show us the value that the input box currently has. From there we can perform some operations on that value to extract the birthday, birthmonth, and birthyear values you need.

Code: 
function calcAge(inputObj)
{
[tab]var birthmonth = inputbObj.split("-")[0];
[tab]var birthday = inputbObj.split("-")[1];
[tab]var birthyear = inputbObj.split("-")[2];
}

Assuming the date is being entered as MM-DD-YYYY That should give us the 3 values you want. You can again use an alert to make sure you are getting the desired output.

From there, and assuming the rest of the code works(haven't checked it out in detail) it should perform the operations and output the age.

I would strongly suggest a JS tutorial to get the basics.

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