JavaScript can be used to write the current date to a page, or to write the year to the page, for instance, in the copyright section of your site.

This is the HTML. It would be placed where we’d like today’s date to appear (inside the span of the paragraph).

<p id="date_section">Today's Date: <span id="full_date"></span></p>

Then the following JavaScript is used to create the date and write it to the HTML element above.

// get new date object
let today = new Date();

// variables
let day = today.getDate();
let month = today.getMonth();
let year = today.getFullYear();

// write the date to the HTML element
document.getElementById('date_section').innerHTML = month + '-' + day + '-' + year;

Example:

Today’s Date: 6-26-2024

You could have the copyright year written to the page using JavaScript, which would automatically update every year. That way, you don’t have to manually do it every January 1st.

This is the HTML. It would be placed where we’d like the copyright year to appear (inside the span of the paragraph).

<p id="copyright_section">Copyright &copy;<span id="copyright_year"></span></p>

Then the following JavaScript is used to create the year and write it to the HTML element above.

// get new date object
let today = new Date();

// variable
let year = today.getFullYear();

// write the date to the HTML element
document.getElementById('copyright_year').innerHTML = year;

Example:

Copyright ©2024

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