Question

I am trying to replace the year 2011 in a footer that contains the copyright with the current year.

Currently I have successfully replaced ‘2003-2011’ with ‘2003-2012’ like this:

  $(document).ready (function (function(){

 $('div.footer').html($('div.footer').html() .replace('2003-2011','2003-2012'));

});

But I wanted to replace ‘2011’ with the current year so you don’t have to change the script every year.

Doing this doesn’t work:

 var year=getFullYear();


 $(document).ready (function(){


$('div.footer').html($('div.footer').html() .replace('2011','year'));



 });

As always, thank you very much for your help.

Answer 1

Don’t put year in quotes, it’s a variable. Putting it quotes makes the string 'year'.

var year = new Date().getFullYear();  // This should be `new Date`
                                      // as `getFullYear` isn't a global function
$(document).ready (function(){
   $('div.footer').html($('div.footer').html() .replace('2011', year));
});