HTML DOM ins dateTime Property

The HTML DOM ins dateTime property returns the date and time for when the text was inserted.

Syntax

Following is the syntax −

Returning string value

insObject.dateTime

Example

Let us see an example for ins dateTime property −

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>ins dateTime</title>
<style>
   form {
      width:70%;
      margin: 0 auto;
      text-align: center;
   }
   * {
      padding: 2px;
      margin:5px;
   }
   input[type="button"] {
      border-radius: 10px;
   }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<fieldset>
<legend>ins-dateTime</legend>
<h1>Fact:</h1>
<p>Water cannot persist on moon's surface.
<ins id="newInfo" cite="https://www.example.com/water-ice-moon-surface-confirmed.html" datetime="2018-08-21T18:23Z">
Water ice found on moon.</ins>
</p>
<input type="button" onclick="getDate()" value="When was this change made?">
<div id="divDisplay"></div>
</fieldset>
</form>
<script>
   var divDisplay = document.getElementById("divDisplay");
   var insDateTime = document.getElementById("newInfo");
   function getDate() {
      divDisplay.textContent = 'Text inserted on '+insDateTime.dateTime.split("T")[0];
      divDisplay.textContent += ' at '+insDateTime.dateTime.split("T")[1];
   }
</script>
</body>
</html>

Output

This will produce the following output −

Before clicking ‘When was this change made?’ button −

HTML DOM ins dateTime Property

After clicking ‘When was this change made?’ button −

HTML DOM ins dateTime Property