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You can call these two functions to display the date and time text strings in the show-
Date and showTime fields of the Web form. To call the functions, you first must create a
link to the functions.js file.
To call the showDate() and showTime() functions:
1. Return to the clock.htm file in your text editor.
2. Directly above the opening <script> tag for the embedded script, insert the fol-
lowing external script element:
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”functions.js”></script>
3. In the embedded script element, replace the placeholder value in the dateNow
field with the following:
showDate(today)
4. In the embedded script element, replace the placeholder value in the timeNow
field with the following:
showtime(today)
Figure 11-11 shows the revised code for the clock.htm file.
Figure 11-11
inserting the showdate() and showtime() functions
link to the
functions.js file
display the text of the current
date and current time
5. Save your changes to the file.
6. Reopen or refresh clock.htm in your Web browser. Figure 11-12 shows the revised
date and time value in the page's Web form.
Figure 11-12
revised date and time values
date string generated by
the showDat e () function
time string g enerated by
the showTime() function
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