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Browse All TopicsI have a form and I need to include the
<input type="date" value="***">
*** as being today's date . It should automatically capture today's date and replace the *** .
Anyone know how to accomplish this?
Can this be done with javascript ? If so can anyone give me the code for it?
Thanks for any help !
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by: HolgerPosted on 1997-11-11 at 12:05:25ID: 1855507
In Netscape Navigator, there is a very nice way of including JavaScript-values in HTML-code. The shortest form of that would look like this:
alue=D.get Month()+"- "+D.getDat e()+"-"+D. getYear();
<input type=text name=dateinput value="&{new Date()};">
The string will always be in the format used on the local computer. If you don't like that format, you will have to assign the value "the hard way" ;-)
<form name=form1>
<input name=dateinput type=text value="&{(new Date())};">
</form>
<script>
D = new Date();
document.form1.dateinput.v
</script>
If you have more values to initialize, it might be better to place all these initializations into a separate function and call it in the "onload" handler of the body:
<BODY .... onload="Initialize()">
Good luck! Let me nkow if you have any questions...