Dates

Display Dates using CSS class with Albert span attributes.

Screenshots

Inline date formatting

Specifics

Albert enables the chef to control the display format of dates used throughout the statement. Date displays can be configured within any SetText.html instructions. If the span attributes is not configured, the default Format is MMMM D, YYYY, which renders as January 1, 2001.

Samples

Date formatting requires use of the visual-date class and the visual-date-format attribute:

Set the Date display to be MM/DD/YY in View/Pattern01 OneColumn Sample/OneColumn/SetText.txt
```
 <span class="visual-date" visual-date-format="MM/DD/YY">19810701</span>
```
will render as 07/01/1981

Attribute Syntax

	Pattern	Output
Month	M	1 2 … 11 12
	Mo	1st 2nd … 11th 12th
	MM	01 02 … 11 12
	MMM	Jan Feb … Nov Dec
	MMMM	January February … November December
Day of Month	D	1 2 … 30 31
	Do	1st 2nd … 30th 31st
	DD	01 02 … 30 31
Year	YY	70 71 … 29 30
	YYYY	1970 1971 … 2029 2030

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Published August 13, 2020 By Michael Zaucha In Recipes