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Prepopulating a form date field using javascript 2
- Thread starter cdumigan
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you can do this very easily :
<html>
<head>
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<script>
function fillWithToday(formElm)
{
var today = new Date();
var year = today.getFullYear();
var month = today.getMonth()+1;// + 1 because its an array
var day = today.getDay();
formElm.value = day + "/" + month + "/" + year
}
</script>
<body onload="fillWithToday(document.myForm.myDateField)">
<form name=myForm>
<input type=text name=myDateField>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Hope this helps. Gary Haran
<html>
<head>
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<script>
function fillWithToday(formElm)
{
var today = new Date();
var year = today.getFullYear();
var month = today.getMonth()+1;// + 1 because its an array
var day = today.getDay();
formElm.value = day + "/" + month + "/" + year
}
</script>
<body onload="fillWithToday(document.myForm.myDateField)">
<form name=myForm>
<input type=text name=myDateField>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Hope this helps. Gary Haran
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Hi,
Gary's example give you 2/4/2002 where 2/ = the second day of the week, because today.getDay(); returns the day of the week [values between 0(Sunday) and 6 (Saturday))
To get the day of the months you have to use:
var day = today.getDate();
Sorry to improve you Gary ;-)
Erik
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Gary's example give you 2/4/2002 where 2/ = the second day of the week, because today.getDay(); returns the day of the week [values between 0(Sunday) and 6 (Saturday))
To get the day of the months you have to use:
var day = today.getDate();
Sorry to improve you Gary ;-)
Erik
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This year I will participate at the World Championships in Germany. (!! Many Happy Returns !! -->
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