Animate your page with JavaScript JavaScript can't help you to capture the heart of the one you love but it can add the appearance of a little romance to your page. ... Read More

There are all sorts of different menus that you can add to your page with JavaScript The double cross bar menu is one that is popular with some sites. Selecting an ... Read More

Computers don't count the same way we do. JavaScript can convert for us. Computers work in binary while we usually use decimal numbers. To make the conversion between them easier hexadecimal ... Read More

JavaScript today is a lot different from JavaScript of several years ago. The JavaScript language has changed a lot in recent years with the addition of proper support for the document ... Read More

JavaScript contains code to make parsing XML returned from the server in order to make it easier to add it into your page. One common way to get the information passed ... Read More

JavaScript can write both session and first party cookies There are four fields that can be assigned values when you write a cookie. Depending on which you use and what you ... Read More

JavaScript reads all accessible cookies at once The document.cookies object contains all of the information stored in all of the cookies accessible to the web page. Extracting the individual cookies is ... Read More

The only way JavaScript can write anything is using cookies. One of the simplest ways to pass information between web pages is via cookies. Here's a brief introduction to the different ... Read More

Easter for all Christians other than Orthodox was the weekend before last this year with Orthodox Easter following last weekend. They don't always follow each other like this but for ... Read More

Sometimes JavaScript needs a little help. JavaScript can't actually access your visitor's IP address directly but with a little help from some other language you can make the IP address available ... Read More

How old a person was on their last birthday is usually what we want when we ask their age. How do we get someone's age using JavaScript? Simply subtracting their date ... Read More

JavaScript Object Notation is not only a valid way to define objects in JavaScript, it also provides a convenient way to pass data between the server and the client. The eleventh ... Read More

Forms take up less space when you use JavaScript to modify parts of the content based on prior responses. One way of placing a lot of info in a small space ... Read More

JavaScript can handle any sort of link between drop down lists Sometimes when you have multiple dropdown lists in your form there may be a relationship between those lists. This tutorial ... Read More

JavaScript can help to make a web page easier (or harder) to use. Just how the JavaScript that you add to your web page contributes to the usability of your page ... Read More

Some original JavaScript commands have been superceded by something better. Before the introduction of the Document Object Model, JavaScript had very few ways of interacting with your visitors. Now those ways ... Read More

Reduce the space your navigation options take up using JavaScript Space on the screen is precious and content and navigation menus compete for that space. Let your visitors decide how much ... Read More

Stop your navigation options scrolling off the screen with JavaScript. Easy web site navigation means having a number of links visible in the browser window so that your visitor can select ... Read More

How do we set an Ajax response to be XML or text so that JavaScript can tell how to process it? In the last Ajax tutorial we looked at how we ... Read More

JavaScript games may attract more visitors to a personal web site. JavaScript can do a lot more than just enhance the functionality of a professional web site. People trying to use ... Read More

Some JavaScript is just for fun.No sooner had I created a version of the Memory Game that doesn't require any images than people started sending me requests for a version ... Read More

Play games with JavaScript Have you heard of a game called "Concentration"? Perhaps you know it as the "Memory Game". You know the one where you have so many pairs of ... Read More

JavaScript can update the web page without needing any JavaScript mixed in with the HTML. In the twenty fourth tutorial on modern unobtrusive JavaScript we take a brief look at the ... Read More

Ajax can use either get or post to send data to the server Deciding whether to use get or post when making ajax requests needs to be based on different criteria ... Read More

Ajax supports both synchronous and asynchronous calls One decision you need to make when using Ajax is whether to make your calls synchromously (where the page waits for the response) or ... Read More

Sometimes an ajax request supplies the response in two different ways. The eighth Ajax tutorial looks at how we can access the results returned from our Ajax request to the server. ... Read More

JavaScript defines the behaviour of a web page An image rollover is one of the simplest of JavaScripts. Often though it is not just the image that you want to have ... Read More

JavaScript allows your visitors to interact with your web page. When you visit a web page wouldn't it make it easier to find what you were looking for if you could ... Read More

Web pages are usually stateless - meaning that when someone visits a web page the page behaves the same regardless of what they did before. To allow a web page to ... Read More

Unobtrusive form validation is possible In this twenty third modern JavaScript tutorial we look at how to redesign the way that JavaScript interacts with forms so as to make all of ... Read More