Hi. I have found this piece of code to work out the number of days between two dates.

However, how could i modify this so that it finds the days between two dates that were entered in a text box as opposed to simply text. Thanks

Aaron

THE CODE


<!-- Paste this code into an external JavaScript file named: dateDiff.js -->

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function calcDays(){
var date1 = document.getElementById('d1').lastChild.data;
var date2 = document.getElementById('d2').lastChild.data;
date1 = date1.split("-";
date2 = date2.split("-";
var sDate = new Date(date1[0]+"/"+date1[1]+"/"+date1[2]);
var eDate = new Date(date2[0]+"/"+date2[1]+"/"+date2[2]);
var daysApart = Math.abs(Math.round((sDate-eDate)/86400000));
document.getElementById('diffDays').lastChild.data = daysApart;
}

onload=calcDays;



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<script type="text/javascript" src="dateDiff.js"></script>



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<table width='220' border='1' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='5' align="center">
<tr>
<td>Starting<br>Date</td>
<td>Ending<br>Date</td>
<td>Total<br>Days</td>
</tr><tr>
<td id='d1'>01-01-2006</td>
<td id='d2'>08-05-2006</td>
<td id='diffDays' align='center'> </td>
</tr>
</table>
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Please visit here to see it working. You will see what i mean about the dates being text as opposed to a text box value.

javascript.internet.com/time-date/days-between-two-dates.html