Auto Year

Don Demrow Jan 25, 2001

General

This pulldown menu will automatically adjust the range of years depending on the current year. As an added bonus, the range is easily modified.

Notes

Created by: Don Demrow
Posted: January 25, 2001

Source Code

Paste this source code into the designated areas.

External file

Paste this code into an external JavaScript file named: autoYear.js

/* This script and many more are available free online at
The JavaScript Source!! http://www.javascriptsource.com
Created by: Don Demrow |  */
function autoYear() {
  var time = new Date();
  var year = time.getYear();
 
  if (year < 1900) {
    year = year + 1900;
  }

  var date = year - 25; /*change the '25' to the number of years in the past you want to show */
  var future = year + 10; /*change the '10' to the number of years in the future you want to show */ 

  document.writeln ("<form><select><option value=\"\">Select Year");
  do {
    date++;
    document.write ("<option value=\"" +date+"\">" +date+ "");
  }
  while (date < future)
  document.write ("</select></form>");
}

Head

Paste this code into the HEAD section of your HTML document.


<script type="text/javascript" src="autoYear.js"></script>

Body

Paste this code into the BODY section of your HTML document


<script type="text/javascript">
  autoYear();
</script>

Leave a Response

(4 comments)

It works for me using FF 2.

Lee Oct 31, 2008

Your demo doesn't work with Firefox. It makes ti unusable for our web sites but I like the idea... Any fix for Firefox?

Ron Sep 15, 2008

Works great and so easy to mod & style

Derek Fielding Jul 4, 2008

This is Very good. It helped me a lot.

Harikrishna Mar 25, 2008

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