moonlander Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I have found some excellent javascript code to put today's date on my website. Unfortunately it appears as:This site was updatedTuesday 24thAugust 2010I want it to appear as This site was updated Tuesday 24th August 2010The code that prints out the date is <p>This site was updated <div id="day"> </div> <div id="date"> </div></div></p>I hope someone can help me. Below is all the code in case that helps.Ta.<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"><html><head><title></title><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><!--<style type="text/css">#container { width:8.6em; padding:1em; border:3px double #999; margin:auto; }#day,#date { font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:1em; }</style>--><script type="text/javascript">if(window.addEventListener){ window.addEventListener('load',showDate,false); }else { if(window.attachEvent){ window.attachEvent('onload',showDate); } }function showDate() { months=['January','February','March','April','May','June','July', 'August','September','October','November','December']; days=['Sunday','Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday', 'Thursday','Friday','Saturday']; now=new Date(); yy=now.getUTCFullYear(); mm=now.getUTCMonth(); dt=now.getDate(); dd=now.getUTCDay(); end='th';if((dt==1)||(dt==21)||(dt==31)) { end='st.'; }if((dt==2)||(dt==22)) { end='nd'; }if((dt==3)||(dt==23)) { end='rd'; } document.getElementById('day').firstChild.nodeValue=days[dd]+' '+dt+end; document.getElementById('date').firstChild.nodeValue=months[mm]+', '+yy; }</script></head><body><p>This site was updated <div id="day"> </div> <div id="date"> </div></div></p></body></html> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsonesuk Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 instead of div (which you should not use within a paragraph), use span instead, and remove misplaced closing div tag<p>This site was updated <span id="day"> </span> <span id="date"> </span></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlander Posted August 24, 2010 Author Share Posted August 24, 2010 instead of div (which you should not use within a paragraph), use span instead, and remove misplaced closing div tag<p>This site was updated <span id="day"> </span> <span id="date"> </span></p>Dsonesuk,That worked, you are a genius, thank you so much. Moonlander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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