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How to get the month name from Date using JavaScript ?

The purpose of this article is to get the month name from a particular date using JavaScript getMonth() method. This method is used to fetch the month(0 to 11) from the given Date object. It returns an integer value ranging from (0 to 11) Zero (0) means January, 1 means February, and so on, till 11 means December.

Syntax:

DateObj.getMonth()

Example: The below code is used to display the current month belonging to the particular Date.

HTML




<body style="text-align:center;">
    <h2 style="color:green">
        GeeksForGeeks
    </h2>
    <h2>
        How to get month name from
        Date using Javascript?
    </h2>
  
    <button onclick="myFunction()">
        Click Me!
    </button>
  
    <h3 id="demoID" style="color:green;">
    </h3>
  
    <script>
        function myFunction() {
            // initializing an array 
            const months = [
                "January", "February", 
                "March", "April", "May", 
                "June", "July", "August",
                "September", "October", 
                "November", "December"
            ];
          
            const d = new Date();
            document.getElementById(
                "demoID").innerHTML =
                "The current month is " 
                + months[d.getMonth()];
        }
    </script>
</body>


Output:

get the month name from Date using JavaScript

get the month name from Date using JavaScript

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