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Asked: 2026-06-07T01:54:57+00:00

can somebody tell me what I am doing wrong? I am new to jquery

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can somebody tell me what I am doing wrong? I am new to jquery and I would like to have some feedback. Basically what I want is some sort of a countdown timer that would display how many days are left till an event happens. The event is a set date.

thank you for your help

 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
 <title>Almost Vacation</title>

 <script type="text/javascript"    src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

 <script>
   $('document').on('ready', calc);
    function calc(){
        var myDate = new Date();
        myDate.setMonth(05, 06);
        var today = new Date();
        today.getDay();
        var x = myDate - today;
        $('#aantal p').text(x);
}



 </script>       

 <style type="text/css">
   p {
      color:red; 
      font-size:1.8em; 
      margin:-90px 10px 5px;
   }

 </style>

 </head>

 <body>

        <img src="http://fed.cmd.hro.nl/upload/files/1011/y1/q4/w3/slapende_student.jpg" width="462" height="275" />

    <p>Vacation starts in<span id="aantal">&nbsp;</span> Days</p>
 </body>


 </html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    It needs to be:

    $(function() {
    var myDate = new Date();
    myDate.setMonth(06, 06); //set date forward in time, not backward
    var today = new Date();
    var x = (myDate - today)/86400000;
    $('#aantal').text(x); //append to the span, not the p that does not exists
});

    Fiddle

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