New Scripts | JavaScript | Tutorials & Tips

A code snippet to determine and display the date the document was last modified, date only.

This JavaScript code allows you to ensure a window to remain in focus, on top. Useful for web site news or smaller popup windows that are easily shuffled under out of focus. Try to change focus to a different page, click another window, and you will see how the script works.

Here are the instructions showing how to add topday's date on your web site using JavaScript. Source code provided.

Learn about session-only cookies in JavaScript, and how they can help your scripts retain information even after the page is reloaded or cleared.

This is a new article on Devshed.com that may be of interest. It's called "An Object Lesson in Javascript," and it's all about using Object Oriented Programming techniques to enhance JavaScript coding.

This tutorial explains the little known technique on manipulating image opacity in NS6, using CSS and DHTML.

A tutorial on how to script forms with JavaScript. Covers different event handlers for common form elements. This is an excerpt of "Beginning JavaScript" from Wrox Press.

This tutorial explains an easy method of offering an automatically updated html file to other sites. I have taken the example of an article but the same theory could be applied to other content such as tutorials, images or news.

This tutorial discusses some essential techniques for scripting and getting your scripts to work in the new NS6.

This tutorial shows you how to perform form-field validation and user interaction with a few lines of JavaScript.

This 10-page tutorial shows how to create an animated news scroller in JavaScript along with several very useful DHTML techniques. Main topics covered: Specifying the banner's position, Using external JavaScript files, How to configure the banner, Assigning the banner's messages to an array, How to initialize the banner, Creating the banner's elements, How to fill the banner's elements, How to set an element's visibility, Rotating the messages, and How to move the messages.

This articles discusses two aspects of JavaScript: working with HTML forms and manipulating frames. It also present a simple but effective personalized greeting script and a script used for submitting and HTML form. Main topics covered: Personalized greetings, Submitting an HTML form using JavaScript, Input Validation, and Frames and JavaScript.

This article discusses different ways to launch new windows with HTML and JavaScript. Topics inclide: How to launch a new window with HTML, How to launch a new window with JavaScript, How to specify the new window's attributes, How to manipulate the new window after creating it, and How to embed links and forms in the remote's document.

This comprehensive tutorial explains various implementations of JavaScript rollovers. It discusses: How to use the document.images object, How to make your rollovers backward compatible, How to create an instance of the Image object, How to combine several rollovers to create a menu, How to create multiple rollovers, How to ensure maximum "transition" quality, and How to create nested rollovers.

One of the simplest ways to add a navigation feature on your site is to put a drop down menu on each of your pages. This short tutorial describes how to create a dropdown menu in JavaScript.

An event handler executes a segment of a code based on certain events occurring within the application, such as onLoad or onClick. This tutorial along with an example explains each of all the event handlers in JavaScript.

Events are the glue which hold together the word inter-active. In learning to control and handle events you bridge the gap between a two-dimensional web page and a three-dimensional one. In this article we look closely at events, what they are, how to handle them with JavaScript, and how they differ -- in some cases significantly -- between the fourth generation versions of Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

This tutorial shows you how to load two frames with one link using JavaScript.

You can use two multiple-select menus to make it easy for someone to create a list, by moving items from one menu to the other. This can be down with three line of JavaScript. Find out how.

The pull down menu is an excellent to condense many links into a small area. In the older days the only way to process a pull-down menu was to use a CGI script, but now you can do it with JavaScript. This tutorial presents several different types of pull-down menus: standard menu, menu with no button, using in frames, and using in a different window.