Last Modified (ID)

The Last Modified (ID) action displays the date the page was last uploaded to the server. The date can replace placeholder text on the page, or display in either a floating box or a table cell. All content within the floating box or table cell will be replaced by the last modified date. If the action is applied to placeholder text or to the contents of a table cell, either must use an ID style. (See Creating ID styles and Applying styles.)

Important: This action works on Internet Explorer 5+ and Netscape 6+ browsers.

Trigger the action with a browser-triggered event set to Onload or a user-triggered event. Choose Action > Message > Last Modified (ID). If you want the date to appear inside a floating box, choose the floating box name from the Layer pop-up menu. If the date will appear in place of text on the page or the contents of a table cell, enter the ID style name used without the # symbol in the Element ID text box.

Choose a numerical Date Format from the menu. To display the day of the week preceding the numerical date, select Include Day Of Week. In the Lead In Text textbox, enter the text you want to precede the date (apostrophes must be preceded by a backslash to prevent JavaScript errors). If you want to customize the text formatting of the date, enter an HTML start tag with attributes in the <open> text box and enter its closing tag in the </close> text box. For example, if you want the new text to display in green at size 5, you could enter

<font color="#00FF00" size="5">

in the <open> text box and

</font>

in the </close> text box.