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Javascript Tutorials
- Introduction to Javascript
- entering javascript directly into a url box
- embeding javascript within an HTML file
- external javascript
- adding comments to javascript code
- javascript variables
- javascript operators
- javascript if...else statements
- javascript switch statements
- javascript functions
- javascript for loop
- javascript while loop
- javascript break loop
- javascript continue loop
- javascript for in statement
- javascript popup boxes
- javascript events
- javascript try and catch
- javascript special characters
- javascript objects tutorials
- javascript string tutorials
- javascript date tutorials
- javascript form validation tutorials
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Javascript getDay() Method
The javascript getDay() method returns a number that represents the day of the week.
The value that is returned by the getDay() method is a number between 0 and 6, for example, if you assing Sunday the number 0, then Monday will be 1, Tuesday will be 2 and so on. The getDay() method is always used in conjunction with a Date object.
The syntax for the using the getDate() method is:
dateObject.getDay()
The javascript below outputs the current day of the week.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>WebDevelopmentTutorials.com</title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
var day = new Date();
var weekday=new Array(7);
weekday[0]="Sunday";
weekday[1]="Monday";
weekday[2]="Tuesday";
weekday[3]="Wednesday";
weekday[4]="Thursday";
weekday[5]="Friday";
weekday[6]="Saturday";
document.write("Today it is " + weekday[day.getDay()]);
</script>
</body>
</html>
The javascript above outputs:
