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Asked: 2026-05-21T07:41:41+00:00

Hello I a very new to Javascript and I need to make a code

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Hello I a very new to Javascript and I need to make a code that allows someone to enter a date and it will result in the season that date is in. I am at a loss at what I should do, an if else statement? This is as far as I got, thank you for everyone’s time!

<body>
<h1>Date to Season</h1>
<p align="left">Enter Date:
<input id="season" maxlength="4" size="24"/>
</p>
<input type="button" value="Submit" onclick="Submit()"/><br/>
<textarea cols="40" rows="3" id="output"></textarea></body>

<script type="text/javascript">
function Submit(){
var date = document.getElementById('season').value;
var seasons = 

if (
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  1. Editorial Team

    Note, there are saner ways of doing this (for instance, using a date object for instance), that would probably be more useful/flexible, especially if you want to determine by the actual season start/stop date (March 28th, for example). This is just to demonstrate a starting point.

    Here’s a very simple example, using a swtich() to return a season according to a numeric month:

    http://jsfiddle.net/RtC58/

    <form name="date">
 <input type="text" name="month"/>
 <input type="button" value="Season?" onClick="getSeason()"/>
</form>

function getSeason() {
    month = document.forms.date.month.value;
    season = '';
    switch(month) {
        case '12':
        case '1':
        case '2':
            season = 'winter';
        break;
        case '3':
        case '4':
        case '5':
            season = 'spring';
        break;
        case '6':
        case '7':
        case '8':
            season = 'summer';
        break;
        case '9':
        case '10': 
        case '11':
            season = 'fall';
        break;
    }
    alert(season);
}

    Here’s a little bit more complex example, showing the short/long month plus the numeric month.

    http://jsfiddle.net/RtC58/1/

    function getSeason() {
    month = document.forms.date.month.value.toLowerCase();
    season = 'unknown';
    switch(month) {
        case 'dec':
        case 'december':
        case '12':
        case 'jan':
        case 'january':
        case '1':
        case 'feb':
        case 'february':
        case '2':
            season = 'winter';
        break;
        case 'mar':
        case 'march':
        case '3':
        case 'apr':
        case 'april':
        case '4':
        case 'may':
        case '5':
            season = 'spring';
        break;
        case 'jun':
        case 'june':
        case '6':
        case 'jul':
        case 'july':
        case '7':
        case 'aug':
        case 'august':
        case '8':
            season = 'summer';
        break;
        case 'sep':
        case 'september':
        case '9':
        case 'oct':
        case 'october':
        case '10':
        case 'nov':
        case 'november':
        case '11':
            season = 'fall';
        break;
    }
    alert(season);
}

    A little bit different approach could be to create variables for the seasons, use if/else statements (as the OP wants an example of) and find the ‘index of’ the month value in the one of the variables (note I added a , [comma] to the end of the month to disambiguate 1 from 12 and 1 from 0, etc…).

    http://jsfiddle.net/RtC58/3/

    function getSeason() {
    month = document.forms.date.month.value.toLowerCase()+",";
    winter = 'dec,december,jan,january,feb,february,12,1,2,';
    spring = 'mar,march,apr,april,may,3,4,5,';
    summer = 'jun,june,jul,july,aug,august,6,7,8,';
    fall = 'sep,september,oct,october,nov,november,9,10,11,';
    season = 'unknown';
    if (winter.indexOf(month) != -1) {
        season = 'winter';
    } else if (spring.indexOf(month) != -1) {
        season = 'spring';
    } else if (summer.indexOf(month) != -1) {
        season = 'summer';
    } else if (fall.indexOf(month) != -1) {
        season = 'fall';
    }
    alert(season);
}
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