My getcurTime() function isn't working after initial load

**ad3cycles** · 01-15-2008, 02:55 AM

this is my external jscript

Code:

// JavaScript Document
function thisDoc(){
 
   document.write(" <b>The Title:</b> ",document.title, "<br>");
   document.write(" <b>The Location:</b> ", window.location, "<br>");
   document.write(" <b>The Date last modified:</b> ", document.lastModified, "<br>");

}

function theBrows(){

   document.write("<b>appCodeName:</b> ",
      navigator.appCodeName, "<br>")
   document.write("<b>appName:</b> ",
      navigator.appName, "<br>") 
   document.write("<b>appVersion:</b> ",
      navigator.appVersion, "<br>")
   document.write("<b>platform:</b> ",
      navigator.platform, "<br>")
   document.write("<b>userAgent:</b> ",
      navigator.userAgent, "<br>")
    
}

function yourDis(){

	document.write( "<b>screen resolution:</b>", screen.width+'x'+screen.height, "<br>")
	document.write( "<b>window dimensions:</b>", document.documentElement.clientWidth+'x'+document.documentElement.clientHeight, "<br>")

}

/*Add a last update statement at the bottom of Assignment5.htm, with the date supplied by the document's lastModified property. Display the date in the format of: Day Month Year at hour:minutes am/pm. Example: 25 October 2005 at 10:03 am. Create the function that formats the date in the external JavaScript file.*/

function dateForm(){
	var months = new Array("January", "February", "March", 
						   "April", "May", "June", "July",
						   "August", "September", "October",
						   "November", "December")
	
	var today = new Date()
	var hour = ""
	var ext = ""
	if (today.getHours() == 0) {
		hour = 12
		ext = "a.m."
	} else if (today.getHours() < 12) {
		hour = today.getHours()
		ext = "a.m."
	} else if (today.getHours() == 12) {
		hour = 12
		ext = "p.m."
	} else {
		hour = today.getHours() - 12
		ext = "p.m."
	}

	
	// *** INSTRUCTOR COMMENTS: This is today's date...not the date the document was last modified. ***
	// Today is Day, Month, Year  
	document.write("Last Modified: ",
				   today.getDate(), ", ",
				   months[today.getMonth()], " ",
				   today.getFullYear()) 

	// at Hours:Minutes
	document.write("at ", hour, ":",
				   today.getMinutes(), " ", ext)
	
}

function getcurTime() { 
				 window.setTimeout( "getcurTime()", 1000 );
				 today = new Date();
				 self.status = today.toString();
			}

and this is my html calling the function

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>


<script language="JavaScript" src="myJS_2.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<title>Assignment 5</title>
</head>
<body>

<body onLoad="thisDoc(), theBrows(), yourDis(), dateForm(), getcurTime() ">

</body>
</html>

thanks in advance,
david

**Twey** · 01-15-2008, 03:10 AM

It's broken.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

Transitional is outdated, and XHTML isn't supported by the most common browser yet. Stick to HTML 4.01 Strict for the time being.

The language attribute is deprecated.

You have two opening <body> tags; in Javascript, multiple statements are separated by semicolons, not commas.

document.write(" <b>The Title:</b> ",document.title, "<br>");

Don't use document.write() in this way. It will only work whilst the page is loading, for a start. Use DOM methods instead. <b> is presentational markup, and thus should be replaced by CSS. Read all the tutorials on http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/.

**ad3cycles** · 01-16-2008, 03:42 AM

Thanks for the help!!!

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