Works perfect in IE, but not fully in Firefox

[simeons]

Hello, i am very angry. I wrote this code. Partially it works fine in Firefox but not in one case (which is almost the same as others).
It all works in IE.

This is the code:

onclick="if (this.value == 1) {
if (getElementById('start_date').value.substring(3,5) <= 6) {
if (parseInt(getElementById('start_date').value.substring(3,5)) + 6 <= 9) {
getElementById('end_date').value =
getElementById('start_date').value.substring(0,2) + '-' +
'0' + String(parseInt(getElementById('start_date').value.substring(3,5)) + 6) + '-' +
getElementById('start_date').value.substring(6,10);
} else {
getElementById('end_date').value =
getElementById('start_date').value.substring(0,2) + '-' +
String(parseInt(getElementById('start_date').value.substring(3,5)) + 6) + '-' +
getElementById('start_date').value.substring(6,10);
}
} else {
//it does not work here
getElementById('end_date').value =
getElementById('start_date').value.substring(0,2) + '-' +
'0' + String(parseInt(getElementById('start_date').value.substring(3,5)) - 6) + '-' +
String(parseInt(getElementById('start_date').value.substring(6,10)) + 1);
}
}
else {
if (this.value == 2) {
period = 1;
}
else {
period = 2;
}
getElementById('end_date').value =
getElementById('start_date').value.substring(0,2) + '-' +
getElementById('start_date').value.substring(3,5) + '-' +
String(parseInt(getElementById('start_date').value.substring(6,10)) + period);
}"

[JMRKER]

First off, what is it supposed to do? In what context does the event get triggered?

Second, how about a brief example of the HTML that will call the onclick event?

Third, it would be better to call the event to a function rather than try to embed all the code in-line.