Javascript and html

[eutaw]

I am new to Javascript; just reading the tutorial. Can I use Javascript to determine the month and then take actions in html based on what month it is? If yes, how?

[mrhoo]

Skip to the section in the tutorial that covers the Date object.
You can get the current date with javascript, and there is a getMonth() method that returns an integer from 0 (January) to 11 (december).

[eutaw]

Thank you very much, mrhoo. When a month is displayed on the calendar, I want to take actions based on what month is displayed, not based on what the current month is. For example, when April is displayed, I want the user to see all of April's events, etc. Is there a way to do this?

[felgall]

That would be dependent on how the calendar and the events are defined.

[eutaw]

This is in response to the response written by felgall.

This is the HTML code that I used to display the current month of a calendar.

<input type="text" size="20" name="monthYear" value="" class="btn">

monthName is one of the parameters used to determine monthYear. I am thinking that I can write a JS function, setActivity(), to display activities based on what monthName is. However, I'm not sure how to get the activities in the body section of the html code.

Hope this makes sense.

[Kor]

Maybe this will help you to better understand javascript:
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/sh...php?t=130995#3

[eutaw]

Thanks for the link. It was very helpful. In practicing writing functions and calling them, I wrote this function.

function writeActivities()
{
document.write("all of jan");
}//writeActivities()

I call it with writeActivities(); and everything worked as expected.

For practicing functions with parameters, I wrote this function.

function writeActivities(mnthName)
{
var y = mnthName;
if (y=="JAN")
{
document.write("all of jan");
}
document.write("<br>the rest");
}//writeActivities()

When I called it with writeActivities(mnthName);, nothing happened until I put parens around mnthName in the call, writeActivities("mnthName"); .

Do you have to use parens when you are passing a variable when calling a function just as when you pass a string of text?