What kind of object is: document.getElementById("userBirthday").date

[jacksondorado]

I am having trouble debugging a form. I want to change the birthday form field from a text field to three dropdowns for month, day, year.

To sum up:

HOW can I equate:

var bdayin = document.getElementById("userBirthday");
var bdaydate = neuro_parseDate(bdayin.value);

with

var bdayin = document.getElementById("Month").value + "/" + document.getElementById("Date").value + "/" + document.getElementById("FullYear").value;
var bdaydate = neuro_parseDate(bdayin);

DETAILS:

I keep getting errors about the object type. The

document.getElementById("txtBirthday").date

is the object type it reads currently.

I tried to create the same variable with

document.getElementById("Month").value + "/" + document.getElementById("Date").value + "/" + document.getElementById("FullYear").value

but it doesn't seem to work. Can someone tell me what .date means at the end of the variable? Also, does a text field element object have any properties before using .value to get the value?

 

[trollacious]

It means that the object with the ID txtBirthday, probably a text input, has an attribute named date, something like:

<input type="text" id="txtBirthday" name="txtBirthday" date="somedate">

If you're getting an error with that code, it's most likely because either the text input doesn't exist or the attribute date doesn't exist.

If you want the value of a text input, using .value is the way to obtain that.

Lee

 

[cLFlaVA]

in addition...

but it doesn't seem to work.

what happens? have you tried creating a date object from the string you concatenate?

var myDateString = document.getElementById("Month").value + "/" + document.getElementById("Date").value + "/" + document.getElementById("FullYear").value;
var myDateObj = new Date(myDateString);
alert(myDateObj);

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[jacksondorado]

Thanks for the help. Creating a date object worked. It was confusing because there are at least 5 different validation functions in different javascript files- old enough?, object exists, is a valid date?, etc.

One of the functions required a date object while the others just used a string object. I just tried changing the value to a date object one at a time for each function until I found the right one.

THANKS!