Question

I wanted wrapping month, day, and year separately inside divs and
I tried doing this

function posted_on_main_page() {
    $format= '<div class="posted-date">
                  <div class="posted-month">%1$s</div>
                  <div class="posted-day">%2$s</div>
                  <div class="posted-year">%3$s</div>
              </div>';
    $month = the_time('M');
    $date = the_time('j');
    $year = the_time('Y');
    printf($format, $month, $date, $year);

}

but for some reasons when I inspect element it displays date before everything

Jun272012<div class="posted-date">
              <div class="posted-month"></div>
              <div class="posted-day"></div>
              <div class="posted-year"></div>
         </div> 

If you have another solution to wrap date separately pls help me out.

Thnx in advance!

Answer 1

Rather than calling the_time($format), use get_the_time($format). This returns the value, rather than echoing it immediately.