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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 13, 2005, 8:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/date-helpers-where-art-thou-html-options/50162 "2005-12-13T20:31:21Z")\
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**Author:**  [@coldcrush](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/coldcrush)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 8:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/date-helpers-where-art-thou-html-options/50162/1 "2005-12-13T20:31:21Z")
Hi railsians, just wondering if anyone has any info on passing
html\_options to date helpers?
My problem is that I need to do a select\_month, but I need to pass an ID
attribute to the HTML and there are no html\_options for those helpers
apparently. The reason why I need to pass the ID is to access it in JS,
and I can’t because of the name of the select is for the hash (ie
“date[month]”), which means it has brackets (my JS skills are rusty,
maybe there’s a way to access it even with that name?
thx
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**Author:**  [@coldcrush](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/coldcrush)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/date-helpers-where-art-thou-html-options/50162/2 "2005-12-14T02:07:35Z")
tieg infosauce wrote:
> Hi railsians, just wondering if anyone has any info on passing
> html\_options to date helpers?
>
> My problem is that I need to do a select\_month, but I need to pass an ID
> attribute to the HTML and there are no html\_options for those helpers
> apparently. The reason why I need to pass the ID is to access it in JS,
> and I can’t because of the name of the select is for the hash (ie
> “date[month]”), which means it has brackets (my JS skills are rusty,
> maybe there’s a way to access it even with that name?
You may be able to use document.getElementsByName(‘date[month]’).
I found three pending patches for adding id attributes to date helpers:
```
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/1050
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/1382
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/2655
```
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