how to preloading a text field when a certain button is pressed?

I have a little program here that I think would simulate something close to what I'm trying to do. I'm assuming if I can make it work, I can get the big stuff to work. I have a form, that basically allows you to select a radio button. When the button is pressed, I want to preload my date field text boxes. But their values are staying blanked out when I go and populate the page. So I tried to write a very small program included here that would put the current year in the date text box when I click the checkbox. It's date text box stays blank as well. What am I doing wrong?

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

<title>Untitled Document</title>

</head>

<script>

function addDate()

{

alert("enetered addDate");

    var now = new Date();

    myYear = now.getYear();

    var element = document.getElementsByName("date");

    element.value=myYear;

}

</script>

<body>

<form action="something" method="get">

  Name: <input type="text" name="fullname" /><br />

  Email: <input type="text" name="email" /><br />

  date: <input type="text" name="date" value="mm/dd/yyyy" /><br />

  <input type="checkbox" value="Submit" onclick="addDate()" />

</form>
 
</body>

</html>

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getElementsByName returns a node list ... so you need to reference a node like:

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var element = document.getElementsByName("date")[0];

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