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This article will demonstrate how to get the current time in another location/timezone in Javascript, with just one line of code. The Simplest Pure-JavaScript Way The below function converts a given date to a different timezone, and contains just 1 line of code. function timezoneConvert(date, tzString) { return new Date((typeof date === “string” ? new Date(date) : date).toLocaleString(“en-US”, {timeZone: tzString})); } This function expects: A date, as either a Date object or string A string containing the name of the timezone to convert to This … Read more

This tutorial will demonstrate how to create a countdown timer in JavaScript, including a function you can copy and paste into your own code. The below code will break down creating a function which calculates the time until a certain future time, and how to run it repeatedly to affect a count down timer. Getting the time remaining until a certain date/time The below function will calculate the days, hours, minutes, and seconds to a target date: function timeToTarget(countdownString){ // Convert the string which specifies … Read more

This quick tutorial will show you how to find and replace text in JavaScript, with code examples. Replacing text in strings is something you will probably need to do quite often. JavaScript comes with the replace() method as part of it’s String objects to handle this functionality. JavaScript Strings JavaScript Strings are a type of variable used to store and manipulate a sequence of characters. There are also string primitives which represent only the characters and do not contain methods for manipulation, but JavaScript will implicitly convert between the two when required. The … Read more

This article will show you how to get the current date, time, or both, in the JavaScript programming language. Code examples included. Date Objects in JavaScript Date objects represent a single point in time in JavaScript. They are created by initializing a new variable with a new Date object: var now = new Date(); By default, new Date objects are initialized to contain the date and time at the instant they were created, along with timezone details for the current device – thus representing the current … Read more

This tutorial will show you how to format numbers to a fixed number of decimal places in the JavaScript programming language. JavaScript Number Variables JavaScript variables have different types. The type of a variable defines what kinds of values it can hold, and what can be done with that value. Number typed variables hold numeric values and include a number of methods (built in functions) for performing numeric operations. Number variables are declared by simply assigning a numeric value to a variable, or using the Number … Read more

You’ve searched for ‘JavaScript Print’ – so you’re probably trying to output data to the console, to the webpage or to a printer. Here’s how to do all three. Printing to the Console with console.log() The JavaScript console.log() method prints data to the JavaScript console (visible in your browsers web inspector). Any type of data can be logged to the console, including strings, numbers, arrays, and objects, and either the contents of, or a text representation of, the value will be displayed. console.log() is frequently used for debugging – developers use it to view … Read more

This short tutorial will show you how to use the JavaScript Array.shift() method to remove items from an array, and provide some code examples. JavaScript Arrays An array is a variable type which can hold zero or more values within it. Each value in an array has a position, called the index – which is an integer value representing the items position in it’s order of appearance. Indexes start counting at position 0 – so the first item in an array is at index 0, the second item at index 1, and so on. JavaScript … Read more

This tutorial will show you how to sort arrays in the JavaScript programming language with the array sort() method and provide some code examples. What is an Array in JavaScript? An array is a type of JavaScript variable that can hold a series of variables, references to variables, or values. It’s like a list of items. Each item or element in the array has a value and a position. The position is the order the element appears in the array and is called the index. Indexes are zero-indexed – meaning … Read more

This tutorial will show you how to properly copy/clone an array or object in JavaScript – it’s not as simple as it seems! Copying an array or object may seem simple – but JavaScript throws a spanner in the works – the fact that when you assign the value of one variable to another it references the original variable. This means that if the value of the original variable is changed, the value of the copy will change too! To get around this, you will need to clone the array – ensuring … Read more

This tutorial will show you how to search arrays in JavaScript using the Array.find() method, and show some code examples. JavaScript Arrays An array is a type of variable that holds an ordered list of values (or references to other variables), called array elements. Each element has a position in the array, called the index – and can be accessed by using that index. We’ve got a whole pile of things you can do with JavaScript arrays. Accessing elements in the array by their index is convenient, … Read more