simple html question

**Jessterw** · 7 June 2008, 08:34

Essentially you're limited to Javascript or a server-side/page pre-processing language such as ASP, JSP, PHP, etc.

An example for Javascript might be:

Code:

<script language="javascript">
function setDate() {
  var d = new Date();
  var currentDate = d.getDate();
  var currentMonth = d.getMonth();
  currentMonth ++;
  var currentYear = d.getFullYear();

  document.formName.fieldName.value = (currentDate + "/" + currentMonth 
      + "/" + currentYear);
}
</script>

First notice that the month variable is incremented after being obtained, this is because the value returned is 0-based indexed (i.e., January = 0, December = 11).

You would also have to add in some value manipulation for the date (day) and month to get them in "dd" and "mm" form, respectively.

VJ · 7 June 2008, 09:12

Thanks!
When do I best call this function?

It is not necessary to prepend unary digits with 0, so that will suffice.

Jorg

**Jessterw** · 7 June 2008, 15:42

Well if you want it to be called after the page has finished loading, then you can do:

Code:

<body onload="setDate()">

VJ · 8 June 2008, 01:51

Thanks!
(I also figured out how to do this in Typo3, as the body-tag is not directly available in this CMS)

JÃ¶rg

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