In HTML5 there is not a native way of specifying 'today' in the value attribute. Here is the jQuery code I like very much. How to extend this code to set
- today's date to
var today
- tomorrow's date to
var tomorrow
- any date calculated to
var anydate
(calculated/initiated from var today
?)
and define the following 3 id-s accordingly:
#theDate
#theTomorrow
#theAnydate
HTML
<input type="date" id="theDate">
jQuery
$(document).ready(function() {
var date = new Date();
var day = date.getDate();
var month = date.getMonth() + 1;
var year = date.getFullYear();
if (month < 10) month = "0" + month;
if (day < 10) day = "0" + day;
var today = year + "-" + month + "-" + day;
$("#theDate").attr("value", today);
});
demo
Like any HTML input field, the browser will leave it empty unless a default value is specified with the value attribute.
Unfortunately HTML5 doesn't provide a way of specifying 'today' in the value
attribute (that I can see), only a RFC3339 valid date like 2011-09-29
.
source: Tak's answer on "HTML5 Input Type Date — Default Value to Today?"
In that instance, you could potentially write a script to simply +1
to find tomorrow's date, but you would first have to add a default value to your input id
for today's date.
As far as anydate? Not entirely sure what you mean there. Like a datepicker?
The question was a bit unclear, but I figured I'd help as much as I could with the info provided.
To assign a date via jQuery, you could always do something like this...
http://jsfiddle.net/SinisterSystems/4XkVE/4/
HTML:
<input type="date" id="theDate">
jQuery:
var today = new Date();
var dd = today.getDate();
var mm = today.getMonth()+1; //January is 0!
var yyyy = today.getFullYear();
if(dd<10){dd='0'+dd} if(mm<10){mm='0'+mm} today = mm+'/'+dd+'/'+yyyy;
$('#theDate').attr('value', today);
alert($('#theDate').attr('value'));
EDIT:
Furthermore, to find both of today's date, and tomorrow's date, but ensure the end of the month or end of the year won't affect it, use this instead:
http://jsfiddle.net/SinisterSystems/4XkVE/6/
HTML:
<input type="date" id="theDate">
<input type="date" id="tomorrowDate">
jQuery
var today = new Date();
var tomorrow = new Date(new Date().getTime() + 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
var dd = today.getDate();
var mm = today.getMonth()+1; //January is 0!
var yyyy = today.getFullYear();
var tomday = tomorrow.getDate();
var tommonth = tomorrow.getMonth() + 1;
var tomyear = tomorrow.getFullYear();
if(dd<10){dd='0'+dd} if(mm<10){mm='0'+mm} today = mm+'/'+dd+'/'+yyyy;
if(tomday<10){tomday='0'+tomday} if(tommonth<10){tommonth='0'+tommonth} tomorrow = tommonth+'/'+tomday+'/'+tomyear;
$('#theDate').attr('value', today);
$('#tomorrowDate').attr('value', tomorrow);
Building on Nicholas Hazel's response and user113716 answer about leading zeroes for dates, here's a concise function to get a date formmated as YYYY-MM-DD and set the value of a "date" type input control.
http://jsfiddle.net/wloescher/2t8v7fnf/2/
HTML
<div>Today:
<input type="date" id="theDate" />
</div>
<div>Tomorrow:
<input type="date" id="theTomorrow" />
</div>
<div>Any Date:
<input type="date" id="theAnyDate" />
</div>
JavaScript
// Set values
$("#theDate").val(getFormattedDate(today()));
$("#theTomorrow").val(getFormattedDate(tomorrow()));
$("#theAnyDate").val(getFormattedDate(new Date("4/1/12")));
function today() {
return new Date();
}
function tomorrow() {
return today().getTime() + 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
}
// Get formatted date YYYY-MM-DD
function getFormattedDate(date) {
return date.getFullYear()
+ "-"
+ ("0" + (date.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2)
+ "-"
+ ("0" + date.getDate()).slice(-2);
}
Use toISOString(), which always returns a "Z" timezone ISO8601 string, and truncate it to just the date.
var todayUTC = new Date().toISOString().substr(0,10);
var todayLocal = new Date(new Date().getTime() - new Date().getTimezoneOffset() * 60 * 1000).toISOString().substr(0,10);
var tomorrowLocal = new Date(new Date().getTime() + 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000 - new Date().getTimezoneOffset() * 60 * 1000).toISOString().substr(0,10);