Thread: Adding date to website

Im creating a website (not yet published) & I want to add today's date (automatically updating). How do I do this?

Main website is www.galwoliecottage.com but new one has no domain yet! Hope you can still help.

Denise

Try dynamicdrive.com for a date/time script

Karen

thanks Karen, but theres nothing on it just for date,as far as I can see.

Denise

Hi, you can paste this below into a html box.

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
var now = new Date();
var days = new Array(
'Sun','Mon','Tues',
'Wednes','Thurs','Fri','Sat');
var months = new Array(
'Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May',
'June','July','Aug','Sept','Oct',
'Nov','Dec');
var date = ((now.getDate()<10) ? "0" : "")+ now.getDate();
function fourdigits(number) {
return (number < 1000) ? number + 1900 : number;}
today = days[now.getDay()] + ", " +
months[now.getMonth()] + " " +
date + ", " +
(fourdigits(now.getYear()));
document.write(today);
//-->
</script>

CHris, when I paste that into my HTML box, and then go to preview it, the date box doesnt appear. Am I missing something?

Denise

Your computer is blocking it from being shown in preview. You're probably getting a notice on top of the screen that some content is blocked - click on that to allow that content and it will show. Or just publish :)

Bethers - THanks, thats great! Its my husbands site and hes working on domain name, etc at the moment so cant publish yet. He wants to know now, can the font be changed for that html code?

The way that code is written, it's using the default font chosen for your page. If you want a different font just for that code, yes it can be done, but you'll need to add it to the code using the following:

Before the code put:

<FONT style="FONT-SIZE:10pt" color="#FFFFFF" face="Georgia">

change the size and color and face to whatever you want.

After the code put:

</FONT>

Theres a ton of them on dynamic drive

http://dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex6/index.html

Karen

Originally Posted by Karen Mac

Theres a ton of them on dynamic drive

http://dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex6/index.html

Karen

Hi Karen, don't think there is a date only script on this site. which is strange

Hi Beth,
that worked perfectly! Thanks for your help.

Denise

Yvw