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Regular expressions are a powerful tool for performing pattern matches in Strings in JavaScript. This is a comprehensive guide and reference on JS regular expressions.

Creating a simple 'add to favorites' link. This is a client side request, that asks the browser to put the link in the 'favorites' folder. Each browser may respond differently to this request, IE will pop open a window asking the user if they wish to add to their favorites.

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.

A simple function to greet the user, according to the hour. Comments in spanish. Happy hacking!

Explains how to write a very simple slide show script. Clicking the currently displayed image advances to the next image.

So what is JavaScript? Is it Java? What does it do? Is it difficult to learn? These questions will all be answered in this tutorial, and more. Jump start your JavaScript endeavor here.

Can a smaller working AJAX example be produced? Always a believer in keeping it simple & find it easier to learn something complex, by making it as small as possible. Visit the URL for a very small AJAX online demo. You can just cut and paste the example into a javascript function, then call it through an onclick or onchange javascript event handler.

This is a tutorial which creates a simple cross-browser drop-down menu system in JavaScript. Tested in IE 4+ NS 4+ NS6/7 Mozilla and Opera 5+. Now includes cascading submenus.

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.

For various web scripts it is more convenient that user will see form executed in new window when he is pressing the submit button. Using JavaScript you can control the appearance of that window. change size, turn off navigation panel, hide manubar and so on. This technique is very helpful for poll and guestbook applications.

This tutorial explains how to create text fading effect utilizing JavaScript and the new DOM of IE5/NS6.

This tutorial shows how how to create custom sized and positioned popup windows with javascript. Popup windows can be used to display help message windows, images in a bigger format, and others.

Learn how to use JavaScript to manipulate and display the current time and date.

You could use your status bar to display the time and date. You might also use it to display mouse-over text or a welcome message. View the source of the demo page for the source code.

Use this wizard to experiment with font and text styles and generate sample CSS style source code. This wizard uses dynamic HTML to change the style of the table in-situ, without loading another page. It is cross-browser compatible with Firefox, Netscape, Internet Explorer, and other modern browsers.

This javascript scripts guide is especially for those who are trying their best to learn DHTML by dissecting code written by others and for people who don't know much about programming but are interested in making their web sites look Dynamic with simple add-ons. In short we bring you (clean) cut and paste resources with explanations on how they work on the same page of each resource.

Learn how to save time and money by using the javascript src() function to including local or remote document like headers, footers, css, images, and flash files.

This tutorial shows you how to use JavaScript to dynamically enable and disable form elements, making the process of filling out forms more intuitive.

If you have a lot of links on a page and don't have enough of space to fit them all a simple way to add the links is to create a jump menu. Learn how to create jump menus in Macromedia Dreamweaver 4.0. Code is also included.

A brief note describing how to write JavaScripts to make them run on as wide a range of browsers as possible.