Question

I’m trying to get a jquery or java-script code for displaying the current month and year in a div, but unable so far. I mean I want to display the current month and year in this format:October 2012 so that every month I don’t need to edit it or anything.

I saw many questions here, but none shows how to display the variable in a div.

Any idea how to accomplish that?

Your help and ideas are much appreciated

Answer 1

JavaScript doesn’t natively implement strftime, so you’ll have to do something a bit less elegant:

window.onload = function() {
    var months = ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'];;
    var date = new Date();

    document.getElementById('date').innerHTML = months[date.getMonth()] + ' ' + date.getFullYear();
};

I’m assuming that you have an element with an id of date somewhere in your HTML.