Question

I came up with a small issue, I am trying to come up with a way to fix it.

Basically what I want to do is take 18 years off the year ie: 2011 which returns 1993, and generate a drop down option for a user to select any year before that.

Basically they have to show that they are over the legal age of 18.

Answer 1

var minOffset = 18,
    maxOffset = 100;

var thisYear = new Date().getFullYear();
var select = $('<select>');

for (var i = minOffset; i <= maxOffset; i++) {
  var year = thisYear - i;
  $('<option>', { value: year, text: year }).appendTo(select);
}

select.appendTo('body');

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/DhpBg/.