JavaScript: Get a full textual representation of a month

Last update on April 24 2023 07:07:38 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

JavaScript Datetime: Exercise-25 with Solution

Write a JavaScript function to get a full text representation of a month, such as January or June.

Test Data:
dt = new Date(2015, 10, 1);
console.log(full_month(dt));
"November"

Sample Solution:-

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>JavaScript function to get a full textual representation of a month, such as January or June.</title>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

JavaScript Code:

Date.longMonths = ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'];

function full_month(dt)
  { 
   return Date.longMonths[dt.getMonth()]; 
  }

dt = new Date(); 
console.log(full_month(dt)); 

dt = new Date(2015, 10, 1); 
console.log(full_month(dt));

Sample Output:

June
November

Flowchart:

Live Demo:

See the Pen JavaScript - Get a full textual representation of a month-date-ex-25 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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