JavaScript setDate() Method: Date Object
Description
The setDate() method is used to set the day of the month for a given date according to local time.
Version
Implemented in JavaScript 1.0
Syntax
setDate(dayValue)
Parameter
dayValue : An integer from 1 to 31, representing the day of the month.
Example:
In the following web document setDate() method sets the day of the month to 23 of a given 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 - setDate() method example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="color: red">JavaScript date object : setDate() method</h1>
<hr />
<script type="text/javascript">
//This is done to make the following JavaScript code compatible to XHTML. <![CDATA[
user_date = new Date("August 12, 1992 21:20:00")
document.write("Before Date Change : "+user_date+"<BR />")
user_date.setDate(23)
document.write("After changing Aug. 12 to Aug. 23 : "+user_date+"<BR />")
//]]>
</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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