Old JavaScripts never die, they just get rewritten In between writing new scripts and tutorials, I occasionally revisit old scripts and look into what needs to be done to update them. ... Read More

The part of JavaScript that does not have a standard is the Browser Object Model We'll take a break from looking at Google Maps on Mondays for a while and instead ... Read More

By testing for the start and end of the string you can test the entire content. In the fifth tutorial on "Regular Expressions" we look at the first of the characters ... Read More

The best menus are still functional when JavaScript is disabled. The suckerfish dropdown menu was the name given to the first dropdown menu for web pages designed using just HTML and ... Read More

Does your site have a computer readable privacy policy? A properly defined privacy.txt file for your web site will possibly need a huge amount of information in it regarding the different ... Read More

JavaScript functions can accept a variable number of arguments JavaScript provides a completely different way of making function arguments optional from the way that most programming languages do it. JavaScript's way ... Read More

JavaScript can implement PHP like functionality One thing that PHP makes really easy to do is to shuffle the content of an array into a random order. This is extremely useful ... Read More

Inconsistencies in JavaScript implementations can be resolved. With Base2 JavaScript guru Dean Edwards is attempting to remove the inconsistencies between the different implementations of JavaScript in different browsers by making use ... Read More

JavaScript regular expressions can perform many useful tasks. The fourth tutorial on "Regular Expressions" shows you how to split a string into several parts by matching it with a regular ... Read More

Add interactivity and interest to your pages using JavaScript Shake the cobwebs off of those code breaking skills you learned back at school and see if you can work out the ... Read More

There are all different types of JavaScript Games Today's JavaScript game tests your visitors memory. In the card game upon which this script is based two cards are flipped over looking ... Read More

Add a fun game to your page or learn more about how JavaScript string objects work Do you remember playing this simple game when you were younger? Well now thanks to ... Read More

Random images added unobtrusively to your page can be updated far more easilt than those using an older more obtrusive script One of the first things most old books on JavaScript ... Read More

Google have photographed the Earth and incorporated those photos into their maps Google Maps provide you with more than just properly scaled maps of anywhere in the world. They also provide ... Read More

Regular Expressions can be used to do a search and replace on your content. You already know how useful the find and replace options are in your favourite editors. Being able ... Read More

JavaScript can enhance input fields There are a number of different ways to collect dates from your visitors. Collecting the date as three separate fields is accurate but awkward while collecting ... Read More

With JavaScript you can tell your visitors what they entered incorrectly into a form before the form is submitted. Dates can be entered in a lot of different formats. If you ... Read More

JavaScript can update drop down list content One of the biggest issues with getting your visitors to enter dates into forms on your page is that different parts of the world ... Read More

If you haven't heard about it already, Chrome is a new web browser being developed by Google. A beta version of it was released late last week so that web ... Read More

Your visitors can interact with any Google Maps on your page. You can make it easier for them by adding controls to the map. One thing that your visitors can do ... Read More

Regular Expressions can ignore capitals and find all matches The second tutorial on Regular Expressions covers how to set the expression for global processing and to ignore capitalization. Even with this most ... Read More

JavaScript can create all sorts of unusual calculators This calculator script is rather specialized in what it does and will probably only be of interest to piano teachers (as an actual ... Read More

Create passwords with JavaScript Generate passwords to your specifications with the JavaScript password generator. You choose a length (between 7 and 20 characters) and the types of characters that the password ... Read More

Create your own unique budget calculator complete with JavaScript validation Budget calculators are fairly simple scripts since all they have to do is add and subtract a few numbers. Where creating ... Read More

Web Browsers limit the number of files they download simultaneously from the one domain. When a JavaScript file is referenced from HTML the limit is reduced to ONE. Older web browsers ... Read More

What does a marker actually mark? Placing a marker on your Google Map isn't much use if your visitors don't know what it is that is being marked. By adding a ... Read More