You can expand the functionality of built in objects in JavaScript very easily. Date manipulation is extremely easy in JavaScript by using date objects. JavaScript does not however include all of ... Read More

JavaScript supports both structured and object oriented programming. JavaScript is somewhat different from many other programming languages because it allows functions to serve a dual purpose. Not only can functions be ... Read More

Ajax has special processing available if the response is XML In the seventh Ajax tutorial we look at the two different response types (XML and plain text) that can be returned ... Read More

JavaScript can rotate the advertising on your page while your visitor is reading your content. Often when you set up a cycling banner, the purpose is to display a series of ... Read More

A little JavaScript animation can attract attention , a lot can become annoying. Get your advertising noticed without annoying visitors too much with this scrolling ad script. Your ad scrolls backwards ... Read More

Popup windows are becoming less and less useful as more and more people block them. Popup blockers vary in how agressively they block popups. You can add a small piece of ... Read More

Properly written JavaScripts will not interfere with each other. In this twenty second modern JavaScript tutorial we look at how you can not only make your JavaScript unobtrusive so that it ... Read More

The release of IE8 a few days ago raises the bar when it comes to what the latest versions of all the popular web browsers support. While the major changes ... Read More

JavaScript needs to decide what parts of your code to run when. JavaScript has two ways it can make decisions on what code to run. The more commonly used way is ... Read More

When you call the server from JavaScript you can't always rely on its returning a valid result In the first five Ajax tutorials we looked at how to set up and ... Read More

Since 1753 the calendar year has started on the 1st January (before that it started on 25th March). The Julian Date is a format that numbers the days in the ... Read More

There is no limit to the ways that you can extend the functionality of the built-in Javascript objects. There are a whole lot of date related values that we can add ... Read More

JavaScript can help when you need to process different things on different days of the year. The first step in setting up any sort of processing based on the day of ... Read More

In an effort to showcase Chrome's enhanced speed with JavaScript, Google announced Chrome Experiments. Read what Marziah, your guide to Google has to say about this development - Google Launches Chrome ... Read More

JavaScript is a prototyping language. You are not limited to just those objects that JavaScript has already defined or even to extending those objects (which would allow you to create objects ... Read More

JavaScript is best kept completely separate from your HTML The original way that JavaScript was coded was to place script tags whereever in the page the JavaScript was needed with the ... Read More

JavaScript ruses functions to break your code into modules and remove repetition. Functions in JavaScript are very powerful in what you can do with them but before you can get on ... Read More

You can pass information to the server with Ajax as well as requesting a response. Most times when we actually request information from the server via Ajax we need to pass ... Read More

The most popular way of driving visitors away from a site is to try to block the normal functioning of your browser as not everyone knows how easily such interference ... Read More

What the browser ends up displaying depends not only on the initial HTML and CSS but also on the JavaScripts that have been run to manipulate that page content. Make ... Read More

Getting rid of layout tables from your HTML makes yhour page more semantically correct. Everyone who hasn't been living under a rock for the past 10 years knows that you should ... Read More

When JavaScript doesn't provide the method you need you can add it yourself. In the last few modern JavaScript tutorials we have looked at the many different objects that JavaScript defines ... Read More

Who can read next month's magazine before it is delivered to the shops? No one other than the people who work for the magazine. In the same way JavaScript can't ... Read More

Experienced programmers have a different approach to learning JavaScript While most beginners to JavaScript need to learn the basics of programming as well as how to apply that to JavaScript, experienced ... Read More

We can't get a response from an Ajax call unless JavaScript sends the request Having created an Ajax request in our web page to request information from the server we need ... Read More

JavaScript can find out what page a visitor was on last provided that your visitor is prepared to let you know If you want to know where your visitor came from ... Read More

JavaScript can update your page for visitors even when you are away from your computer. If you have a number of images, quotes, links, ads or whatever and you want to ... Read More

Keep your navigation links out of the way until they are required using JavaScript. People visit your web page to read the content of the page. The navigation options that you ... Read More

JavaScript has quite a few pre-defined objects many of which you will rarely use. In the last few modern JavaScript tutorials we have looked at some of the types of object ... Read More

Adding prewritten JavaScript to your web page is just a matter of knowing where to put what. If you want to add JavaScript to your page and you don't understand ... Read More

You need to understand JavaScript terminology in order to write JavaScript. Beginners to programming often become confused because they don't take the time to understand the basic concepts before jumping in ... Read More

Web pages don't always have to wait for JavaScript The 'A' in Ajax supposedly stands for asynchronous. What this means is that we will send a request to the server for ... Read More