HTML Element: <time>
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The HTML <time> element indicates a (human-readable)
date / time. It can be used to encode dates and times in a machine-readable
fashion.
The attributes
it can take (in addition to HTML global
attributes and HTML
event attributes) are:
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Attribute
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Description
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More
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datetime
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Date and time of
element
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Here
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To
create or access such an element in JavaScript
see here. The
corresponding HTML DOM
object supports standard
DOM properties and methods, and additional properties with the same name and
meaning as the attributes of the underlying HTML element referred to above. The
default style applicable to this element is shown here.
EXAMPLE:
HTML USED IN THIS EXAMPLE:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> <!-- Copyright (c) Nematrian Limited 2018 -->
<head></head>
<body>
Created using HTML:<br>
<time datetime="2001-12-25">Christmas day, 2001</time>
<br><br>Created using JavaScript:<br>
<span id="element"></span>
<script>
var x = document.createElement("TIME");
x.setAttribute("datetime","2001-12-25")
x.textContent = "Christmas day, 2001";
document.getElementById("element").appendChild(x);
</script>
</body>
</html>
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