Gateway for a kid on the net

[wbport]

Right now my grandson has a folder of his favorite sites (we set them up, the child is < 5yo) on IE. We are thinking of giving him his own home page with links to those sites which would become disabled at a certain time on school nights. While I know how to get the time of day and day of week, I would like to be able to easily override this for things like holidays.

Any suggestions on how this could be done? TIA

[Kuriyama]

Right now my grandson has a folder of his favorite sites (we set them up, the child is < 5yo) on IE. We are thinking of giving him his own home page with links to those sites which would become disabled at a certain time on school nights. While I know how to get the time of day and day of week, I would like to be able to easily override this for things like holidays.

Any suggestions on how this could be done? TIA

Find the date and time.

http://www.w3schools.com/jS/js_obj_date.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/tryit...yjsref_gettime

Have a hidden div on your page with a list of the links.

<div id="links" style="display:none;"> blah blah blah</div>

If the date and time is within a valid range display the div with the links in it.

document.getElementById("links").style.display = 'inline';

[hei8ht]

Enclose all the links in a container DIV and give it an id something like below

<div id="linkList">
  <a href="somelink"> somelink</a>
  <a href="somelink"> somelink</a>
</div>

Have an array which will contain only hours and minutes for which you want the links to be disabled. Using the 'for' loop go through the list at on load of the page. If the current hour and minute matches the one in the list then using 'getElementById' function hide the div as below.

document.getElementById('linkList').style.display='none';

Before hiding, have one more array containing list of holidays on which you dont want to hide these links. Compare the current date with this list and only if the current date doesnt fall in the list, go ahead and hide the links.

Hope i have not confused you and I hope it helps...

[wbport]

I thank both of you for your input--I'm sorry to say I hadn't thought of using <div>'s, but that seems to be the way to go. My prototype is name.htm, replace "name" or "Name" with the child's name, fix the date of birth, change password (optional), and either provide the picture or delete the code that asks for it.

Instead of a table for holidays, I put in a password option (default is face).

[wbport]

The link in the a previous post works, but is there a way to start it without the yellow, "Goodnight Name" message appearing, even for an instant if curfew is not in effect?