Auto set time html

Question

I have a small problem. I have a form where I wish the time were to be written automatically, but I do not know how to do. I tried with:

<input type="time"/>

but the time is not inserted automatically. Does anybody know how to help me? Thanks!

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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The topic has been already discussed here, use the Javascript Date() object. A description can be found on the MDN website.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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answered Jul 24 '14 at 14:45

Christian

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 24 '14 at 14:48

The time type is not fully compatible yet, regardless if you want it to read the current date/time as of the time of execution you must populate the field from javascript.

<input type="time" id="time"> 
<script>
document.getElementById("time").value = Date();
</script>

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 24 '14 at 14:48

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Perhaps:

<body>
   time: <input type="time" id='now'/>  
   <script>document.getElementById('now').value = Date().toString();</script>
</body>

Use toDateString() instead of toString() if you only want the date.

answered Jul 24 '14 at 14:48

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Auto set time html

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