HTML | DOM del dateTime Property

Difficulty Level : Basic
Last Updated : 17 Oct, 2019

The DOM del dateTime Property is used to set or return the value of the DateTime attribute of the <del> Element. This attribute is used to specify the date and time of the deleted text. The date-time is inserted in the format YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD.

Syntax:

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It is used to return the DateTime property.
```
delObject.dateTime
```

It is used to set the dateTime property.

delObject.dateTime = YYYY -MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD

Property Values:

YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD It specifies the date and time when the text was deleted

Explanation:

YYYY – year (e.g. 2009)
MM – month (e.g. 01 for January)
DD – day of the month (e.g. 08)
T – a required separator
hh – hour (e.g. 22 for 10.00pm)
mm – minutes (e.g. 55)
ss – seconds (e.g. 03)
TZD – Time Zone Designator (Z denotes Zulu, also known as Greenwich Mean Time)

Return value: It returns a string value which represent the date and time when the text was deleted.

Example-1: This Example returns the dateTime Property.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  
<head>
    <title>
      HTML DOM Del dateTime
  </title>
    <style>
        del {
            color: red;
        }
          
        ins {
            color: green;
        }
    </style>
</head>
  
<body style="text-align:center;">
    <h1>
      GeeksforGeeks
  </h1>
  
    <h2>
      DOM Del dateTime Property
  </h2>
  
    <p>
        GeeksforGeeks is a 
      <del id="GFG" 
           datetime="2018-11-21T15:55:03Z"> 
            mathematical</del> 
      <ins>computer</ins> science portal
    </p>
  
    <button onclick="myGeeks()">
        Submit
    </button>
  
    <p id="sudo"></p>
  
    <script>
        function myGeeks() {
            var g = 
                document.getElementById(
                  "GFG").dateTime;
            
            document.getElementById(
              "sudo").innerHTML = g;
        }
    </script>
  
</body>
  
</html>

Output:

Before Clicking On Button: :

After Clicking On Button: :

Example-2 :This Example sets the dateTime Property.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  
<head>
    <title>
      HTML DOM Del dateTime
  </title>
    <style>
        del {
            color: red;
        }
          
        ins {
            color: green;
        }
    </style>
</head>
  
<body style="text-align:center;">
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
  
    <h2>
      DOM Del dateTime Property
  </h2>
  
    <p>
        GeeksforGeeks is a 
      <del id="GFG" 
           datetime="2018-11-21T15:55:03Z"> 
            mathematical</del> 
      <ins>computer</ins> science portal
    </p>
  
    <button onclick="myGeeks()">
        Submit
    </button>
  
    <p id="sudo"></p>
  
    <script>
        function myGeeks() {
            var g = 
                document.getElementById(
                  "GFG").dateTime = "2013-11-15T21:40:07Z";
            
            document.getElementById(
              "sudo").innerHTML = 
              "The value of the dateTime attribute was changed to "
            + g;
        }
    </script>
  
</body>
  
</html>