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+6 A:

You have a few issues, you're not including jQuery on the left, the element has a name not an ID or CID, so it needs to be id="CID" or your selector needs to be select[name='CID']. Last, you need to pass a string to .val() to get the result you want, otherwise it's trying to set it to "4", which doesn't equal "04".

You can shorten all your code down to this though:

var day = new Date().getDate().toString();
$("#CID").val(day.length == 1 ? "0" + day : day);

You can test it here, also as Jamiec points out, you want .getDate() to get the date of the month as opposed to .getDay() which is of the week.

Nick Craver 2010-07-15 11:10:52

This is right, and should be the accepted answer. Just to add one thing; use `CurrentDate.getDate()` to get the day number (15 for today).

Jamiec 2010-07-15 11:14:04

Nice and comprehensive. I'd just been finding the first two problems, when you'd already sorted it.

chryss 2010-07-15 11:14:49

@Jamiec - Missed that error, thanks, and updated.

Nick Craver 2010-07-15 11:15:20

Thank you for this :)

Marcus 2010-07-15 11:17:08

@Marcus you should mark this as the answer if it has helped you.

Jamiec 2010-07-15 11:20:06

One more quick one, for month and year would it be the same idea?

Marcus 2010-07-15 11:25:28

@Marcus - Similar yes, but `.getMonth() +1` for month, and `.getFullYear()` for year, here's a full list: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp

Nick Craver 2010-07-15 11:33:49

Sorry again Nick, would this be it?http://jsfiddle.net/nz2Uu/2/

Marcus 2010-07-15 11:44:03

@Marcus - Almost :) `.getMonth()` is 0-11, so you need a +1 like this: http://jsfiddle.net/nz2Uu/3/

Nick Craver 2010-07-15 11:48:15

Thank you so much for your help, saved me a lot of time.

Marcus 2010-07-15 11:52:00

Answer 2

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because the element's name is CID, not it's id! $('#CID') selects the element with the id CID.

Robbert 2010-07-15 11:12:15

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