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You will recieve your widget on [day, date].
I'm javascript ignorant, so I'm basically looking for something I can cut and post.
Anyone know where there might be such a script, or have one they could post?
I've searched around, but the things I have found were only snippets, and I lack the knowledge to get the things working.
[pre]<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en-GB">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>widget delivery date</title>
</head>
<body>
<form name="myFormName" method="get" action=" ">
<h1>Widget Due Date</h1>
<noscript><div>Javascript must be enabled in your browser</div></noscript>
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<script type="text/javascript">
var myDelayInDays=2; // adjust this value to suit
var myDate=new Date();
var oneDayInMilliseconds = (24*60*60*1000);
var myTimeInMillisconds=myDate.getTime()+(myDelayInDays * oneDayInMilliseconds);
myDate.setTime(myTimeInMillisconds);
/*
setTime() is an 'inbuilt' javascript function
that calculates a date and time by adding or subtracting
a specified number of milliseconds to/from midnight January 1, 1970
it can be buggy in some browsers
*/
var widgetDueDate = myDate.toLocaleDateString();
/*
toLocaleDateString() is an 'inbuilt' javascript function
that converts a Date object, according to local time,
to a string and returns the date portion
*/
document.write('<p>You will receive your widget in '
+ myDelayInDays
+ ' days, on <strong>'
+ widgetDueDate + '<\/strong><\/p>');
</script>
</form>
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</body>
</html>[/pre]
If you have a sec, just two questions. Did you write this off the top of your head? (if so, wow).
Also what's the function of the form part?
Thanks again.
Big Thank you.You're welcome
Took a while to copy it so I didn't mess up the commentsYou can, of course, delete the comments...
But... Yeah... Sorry about the indentation via spacebar-spacing...
For some reason I can't get my head around this forum software and the way it handles (or, maybe, doesn't handle) tab-spacing...
In order to preserve some sort of indentation, I simply 'find-and-replace' my tabs with a bunch of spaces :(
it looks like it works like a charmCool. And its valid HTML4- strict, too :)
Did you write this off the top of your head?almost... I have a few old files that do something very similar
what's the function of the form part?To be honest, I don't recall if it's (ever) 'required' or just 'recommended practice'...
In this case, on such a simple page, its probably a bit of overkill...
But...
On a more complex page, with 2 or more script sections, it can be handy to be able to address specific elements both by element-id AND by form-name - e.g. if/when you (might) have two elements with the same name (can easily happen if more than one person is writing/maintaining code!)
e.g
document.frmAlpha.selEmpName.selectedIndex
and
document.frmBravo.selEmpName.selectedIndex
address two distinct elements :)
At least... that's what I think the rationale is
Anyhoo... if it works, don't fix it is what I say :)
