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<script language="javascript">

document.write(new Date().getSeconds())

</script>


How would I get JS to repeat this so it would be counting up the seconds?

mackenga

If you want the whole page just to reload this is easy. Use the HTML:


replacing <url of page> with the url; e.g.


if the page was called "thispage.html". If you want this to just be in part of the page and leave the rest alone, just create a document containing only this and put it in an IFRAME in the document.

Arguably a neater way to do it is with a text field;


Then your JS code can (assuming this is the first form on the page) set the value of document.forms[0].elements[0].value to write the date;

(The onFocus="blur()" bit means that if your user clicks in the field as if to edit it, the browser kicks them right back out. This is as close to a read-only text field as you can get)


To get it to do this once a second, create a function and use a Timeout; e.g.


(I might have the arguments to setTimeout the wrong way around, by the way; I always seem to do that. If you get an error from that line, swap them and it should work!)

It would be more efficient not to keep creating a new Date object, but that means counting seconds yourself so I'll leave it at that.

Hope this helps!