Sometimes, we want to format date to MM/dd/yyyy in JavaScript.

In this article, we’ll look at how to format date to MM/dd/yyyy in JavaScript.

How to format date to MM/dd/yyyy in JavaScript?

To format date to MM/dd/yyyy in JavaScript, we can use some date and string methods.

For instance, we write

const getFormattedDate = (date) => {
  let year = date.getFullYear();
  let month = (1 + date.getMonth()).toString().padStart(2, "0");
  let day = date.getDate().toString().padStart(2, "0");
  return month + "/" + day + "/" + year;
};

to create the getFormattedDate function.

In it, we get the 4 digit year from the date with getFullYear.

getMonth gets the month.

getDate gets the date of the month.

We call padStart to prepend 0 to pad the string to 2 digits if the number has less than 2 digits.

And then we return the month, day and year combined into a new string.

We add 1 to the month returned by getMonth to make it a human readable month number.

Conclusion

To format date to MM/dd/yyyy in JavaScript, we can use some date and string methods.