You don't need to spend loads of money to be able to add JavaScript to your pages To be able to write and test JavaScript you need five programs. While there ... Read More

Unobtrusive JavaScript is less obvious if you access the elements as they load. One of the biggest disadvantages that updating a web page via the DOM has is that the element ... Read More

JavaScript can be kept completely separate from your HTML with just one statement to link them together JavaScript used to be added all over the place in web pages making a ... Read More

JavaScript can tell whether the current page is in a window opened by JavaScript JavaScript can only close windows (and tabs) that were opened by JavaScript. If the window or tab ... Read More

The Google Map equivalent of 'X marks the spot' is the marker. In this fifth tutorial on the JavaScript to use to control your Google Map we look at how to ... Read More

Web pages should always be usable without JavaScript To properly test your web pages you need to consider those people who have Javascript disabled. You need to test your page with ... Read More

JavaScript browser sensing is useless. When you code your JavaScript what you are interested in is whether the browser being used supports the code or not. This can be most easily ... Read More

When JavaScript doesn't have functions to do something built in we can add our own PHP has these useful functions that will escape those characters that can cause confusion when they ... Read More

The Google Map equivalent of 'X marks the spot' is the marker. In this fifth tutorial on the JavaScript to use to control your Google Map we look at how to ... Read More

Email programs are very different to Web Browsers regarding JavaScript. One format that most email programs support to send emails in is HTML. Just because you can use HTML in emails ... Read More

Google Maps can display any location based on its latitude and longitude The easiest way to specify what part of our planet that you want your Google map to display is ... Read More

Sometimes the valid values for one form field depend on the value of another field In the last (for now) JavaScript tutorial on form field validation we consider the need to ... Read More

JavaScript allows you to use a drop down list for site navigation If you have lots of pages on your web site then providing a plain list of links will take ... Read More

JavaScript can tell the time at different places Let your visitors know what time it is where you are with this JavaScript. As long as your visitor's have their local time ... Read More

Animate text with JavaScript Create an attention grabbing text banner on your page by having the text expand and then shrink to be replaced by the next line of text. Expanding and ... Read More

Even bad products can have good books written about them There are mediocre JavaScript libraries and there are some really bad ones as well and each has its followers who disregard ... Read More

A book that demonstrates some of what JavaScript can really do. There are lots of books around that introduce beginners to JavaScript as well as quite a few that show you ... Read More

Your visitor may not access all the fields in the form so validating each field individually is not enough. As well as validating individual fields in a form you should also ... Read More

JavaScript bridges the gap between radio buttons and checkboxes. Radio buttons work perfectly when you want your visitors to select one out of a number of options. They don't help when ... Read More

JavaScript can add the functionality missing from HTML. You can easily specify the amount of text that can be entered into an input field using the maxlength attribute. There is no ... Read More

Count words with JavaScript Have a text area in a form and want to know how many words your visitor enters? This simple JavaScript will keep count for you. Counting Words

Unobtrusive JavaScript may be slightly longer than if you jumbe the JavaScript in with the HTML but it is a lot more flexible. This unobtrusive slideshow script contains a number of ... Read More

Setting the scale of your Google Map is the simplest first step Once we have the code that we need to add a Google Map to our web page we need ... Read More

There are several places to attach validation of form fields with JavaScript So far in our tutorials on validating forms we have looked at the JavaScript needed to perform different types ... Read More

The various web browsers provide you with all of the facilities you need to locate the errors in your JavaScript code. It isn't enough just to write JavaScript and hope that ... Read More

Real Encryption is possible with JavaScript Almost all of the more knowledgeable JavaScript programmers claim that truly hiding your page source so that only those with the right password can access ... Read More