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4.
Insert the following code to run the calendar() function to create the table, as
shown in Figure 12-5:
<script type=”text/javascript”>
calendar();
</script>
Figure 12-5
calling the calendar() function
locat
ion of the
calendar table
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5.
Close the file, saving your changes.
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6.
Open
ccc.htm
in your Web browser, and then verify that the browser does not
report any coding errors. As Figure 12-6 shows, the calendar table shows only the
table border because the table doesn't contain any content yet.
Figure 12-6
empty table inserted into the web page
embedd
e
d table
Trouble?
Depending on your browser, you might not see the table border, and you
might instead see only a blank space where the Web table would appear.
Next, you'll start to write the code to create the contents of the calendar table. The three
main tasks to complete the calendar table are:
• Create the table header row.
• Create the table row containing the names of the days of the week.
• Create the rows containing the days of the month.
In this session, you'll learn how to create the header row for the calendar table. In the
next session, you'll complete the rest of the table.
Introducing Arrays
Maria wants the header row of the calendar table to display the text
Month, Year
, where
Month
is the name of the month and
Year
is the four-digit year value. In the last tutorial,
you learned that you can use the
getMonth()
method of the JavaScript
Date
object to
extract a month number and the
getFullYear()
method to extract the four-digit year
value. For example, a
Date
object storing the date
March 18, 2015
has a month value
