JavaScript getMonth() Method: Date Object

Last update on August 19 2022 21:50:37 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Description

The getMonth() method is used to get the month of a given date according to local time. The value returned by getMonth is an integer between 0 and 11, referring 0 to January, 1 to February, and so on.

Version

Implemented in JavaScript 1.0

Syntax

getMonth()

Example:

In the following web document, getMonth() method returns the month of a specified date and the current date.

<!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" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>JavaScript date object - getMonth() method example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="color: red">JavaScript date object : getMonth() method</h1>
<hr />
<script type="text/javascript">
//This is done to make the following JavaScript code compatible to XHTML. <![CDATA[
newyear2008 = new Date("January 1, 2008 11:10:00")
smonth = newyear2008.getMonth()
document.write("The month of "+newyear2008+" is : "+smonth+"<br />")
current_date = new Date()
cmonth = current_date.getMonth()
document.write("The current month is : "+cmonth)
//]]>
</script>
</body>
</html>

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Supported Browser

Internet Explorer 7	Firefox 3.6	Google Chrome 7	Safari 5.0.1	Opera 10
Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

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