Get data from datetime element

Question

I want to highlight the date from the datetimeitem below.

<time datetime="2015-12-18T12:38" pubdate> 18 december 12:38</time>

How can I do this, i.e. to get 2015-12-18T12:38?

I know I can extract the text "18 december 12:38". But now this is what I want.

Regards

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user1665355 Dec 18 '15 at 12:29

2 answers

You can do it with jquery .attr()- http://api.jquery.com/attr/

$('time').attr('datetime')

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Armen Dec 18 '15 at 12:33

ROMANIA_engineer · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-18T12:32:45+0000

If you want to get the attribute value of this element:

document.getElementsByTagName("time")[0].getAttribute("datetime");