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Making Events Unobtrusive

Update old JavaScripts by converting them to make them unobtrusive. Here's step by step instructions on how to do it.

JavaScript Dates

The Date Object in JavaScript makes manipulating and displaying dates and times really easy. It works even better if you add further methods to it.

Learning to Write Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

This tutorial is for both those who are just starting out with JavaScript and want to learn the modern way to write code as well as those who have been writing JavaScript for some time and want to modernise their code.

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

Some JavaScript commands should be considered to be obsolete since better ways of achieving the same result are now supported by all modern browsers.

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

Modern JavaScript has a standard way of interacting with web pages called the Document Object Model.

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

The JavaScript you use with forms can be just as unobtrusive as the rest of your JavaScript.

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

By slightly modifying the way we write JavaScript we can reduce the opportunity for it to clash with other JavaScript in the page.

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

As well as using and extending the objects built into JavaScript, you can also create your own.

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

You can add properties and methods to existing JavaScript objects at any time.

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

There are many objects built into JavaScript some of which you will rarely use.

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

The built in dialogs such as alert have no place in a live web page.

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

Date manipulation in JavaScript is easy using the date object.

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

Text strings are one of the more useful types of object in JavaScript

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

JavaScript treats numbers as just another type of object and there are therefore methods that can be used to manipulate numbers.

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

There are different types of loops available in JavaScript which serve different purposes

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

Nodelists are part way between objects and arrays in the way they work with JavaScript

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

One of the most useful objects in JavaScript is the array.

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

The basis on which everything in JavaScript is built is the object.

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

There is no difference in JavaScript between the properties of an object and variables.

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

One thing that makes a JavaScript function flexible is the way that you can pass it different values in the parameters for each call and directly access the value the function returns.

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

In JavaScript functions and methods are exactly the same thing as all functions are methods.

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

There are two places where you can put your script tag when using unobtrusive JavaScript. The traditional one is in the head of the page.

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

There is seldom a need to test what browser is being used in order to work out whether given code can or can't be run in JavaScript since JavaScript has supported feature sensing since it was first created.

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

JavaScript offer a number of comparison operatorsa that can be used to test what values various variables and objects contain.

Learn Modern Unobtrusive JavaScript

Not all events are triggered by your visitor. You can set up events to be triggered after a specific time has elapsed or even to be triggered at regular intervals.