HOW TO: Set the Default Date for the Calendar Control by Using ASP with FrontPage 2002

When you insert the ActiveX Calendar Control, the default date is set to the date when the page was created. This article describes how to programmatically set the default date value for the ActiveX Calendar Control by using Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP).

Set the Default Date for the Calendar Control by Using ASP

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1. Open a web in FrontPage on a Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server.
2. Open a new blank page.
3. Insert the Calendar Control. To do this, follow these steps:
   1. On the Insert menu, click Web Component.
   2. Under Component type, click Advanced Controls.
   3. Under Choose a control, click ActiveX Control.
   4. Click Next.
   5. Select Calendar Control 10.0.
   6. Click Finish.
4. Switch to HTML view.
5. Find the section of code that looks like this:

   <param name="Year" value="2000">
   <param name="Month" value="1">
   <param name="Day" value="1">
   						

   Change the code to look like this:

   <param name="Year" value="<%=Year(Date())%>">
   <param name="Month" value="<%=Month(Date())%>">
   <param name="Day" value="<%=Day(Date())%>">
   					

6. Switch to Normal view.
7. Save the page with an ASP extension.

When you browse the page by using HTTP, the ASP code automatically creates the default date based on the current date.