JavaScript getMonth() Method: Date Object
Description
The getMonth() method is used to get the month of a given date according to local time. The value returned by getMonth is an integer between 0 and 11, referring 0 to January, 1 to February, and so on.
Version
Implemented in JavaScript 1.0
Syntax
getMonth()
Example:
In the following web document, getMonth() method returns the month of a specified date and the current date.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>JavaScript date object - getMonth() method example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="color: red">JavaScript date object : getMonth() method</h1>
<hr />
<script type="text/javascript">
//This is done to make the following JavaScript code compatible to XHTML. <![CDATA[
newyear2008 = new Date("January 1, 2008 11:10:00")
smonth = newyear2008.getMonth()
document.write("The month of "+newyear2008+" is : "+smonth+"<br />")
current_date = new Date()
cmonth = current_date.getMonth()
document.write("The current month is : "+cmonth)
//]]>
</script>
</body>
</html>
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Supported Browser
| Internet Explorer 7 | Firefox 3.6 | Google Chrome 7 | Safari 5.0.1 | Opera 10 |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
See also:
JavaScript Core objects, methods, properties.
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