Question

This is a simple function to show the date (I don’t want professional ones so this is enough).
The problem is that I want to show it when the page loads. I don’t want the user to press on any buttons or anything, but it’s not working.

Here it is:

<script type="text/javascript">
    window.onload = ReturnDay;
</script>

<script>
    function ReturnDay() {
        var monthNames = [ 
            "January", 
            "February", 
            "March", 
            "April", 
            "May", 
            "June",
            "July", 
            "August", 
            "September", 
            "October", 
            "November", 
            "December" 
        ];
        var dayNames= [
            "Sunday",
            "Monday",
            "Tuesday",
            "Wednesday",
            "Thursday",
            "Friday",
            "Saturday"
        ];
        var newDate = new Date();

        newDate.setDate(newDate.getDate() + 1);    

        $('#dateday').html(dayNames[newDate.getDay()] + " " + newDate.getDate() + ' ' + monthNames[newDate.getMonth()] + ' ' + newDate.getFullYear());​
    }
</script>

<input id="dateday" type=text></div>

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Although you could be clearer on the issue, I think the problem’s because you’re trying to set the html of an input field. Try this instead

$('#dateday').val(...);