HTML, XHTML, & CSS, Sixth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide

Adding the Current Date and Time

Nothing makes your page seem more current than adding the date and the time. While they’re a bit more complicated to format in a particular way, just adding them is not difficult at all.

To add the current date and time to your page:

4.	In a separate text document, on the first line, type document.write(
5.	If desired, type "<tag>"+, where tag is the (X)HTML structure you’d like to apply to the date.
6.	Next type Date() to call JavaScript’s internal date function.
7.	If you’ve added an element in step 5, type +"<\/tag>", where tag is the corresponding closing tag. Notice the extra backslash that hides (X)HTML’s forward slash / from JavaScript.
8.	Type ) to finish the document.write function (Figure 20.1).