Working With the Keyboard in Java Script
Using Java Script you can determine which keyboard key the user pressed. You can use this information to block certain keys, to replace a key's character, or to perform an action based upon a specific key being pressed. In this article, I'll provide some basic code for working with the keyboard. More ...
Easy Rollovers
A rollover is when a user moves the mouse pointer over an image on a Web page the image is replaced with a new image. The simplest rollover can be created with the html code provided in this article. More ...
Submit Forms Without CGI
There are many reasons why you might not want to use CGI forms on your Web site. For example your web site may be on a free host that does not allow custom CGI scripts. You may want to conserve bandwidth on your Web server. Or maybe you just don?t want the hassle of CGI programming. More ...
Debugging JavaScript : Coercions
JavaScript is not a tightly typed language. Sometimes this comes in handy, but other times it can cause problems. More ...
Using the Java Script Date Object
When you want to work with a date in Java Script, you need to use the Date object. In this article, you learn how to create a Date object for today, or for any date in the past or future. You learn how to find the difference between two dates, and how to format a date string any way that you desire. You also learn how to validate a date string returned from a text box in a form, which involved an introduction to JavaScript regular expressions. More ...
Java Script Code for a Random Circle Generator
Have you seen some Web content that uses a group of several different size and color circles as a decoration? In this article I'll show you how to use a bit of Java Script code to draw a group of random size and color circles. More ...
JavaScript to Replace All Occurrences of a Substring Within a String
If you have a string with multiple occurrences of a substring within and you want to replace every occurrence of that substring with a different substring, this article provides a simple code example. More ...
HTML5 Canvas lineCap and lineJoin Attributes
The HTML5 canvas element is a webpage container for graphics. You can use JavaScript to draw within the canvas element. In this article to learn how to draw lines with round or square end caps and how to specify that where two lines join the joint should be miter, round or beveled. More ...
What is a Regular Expression?
A Regular Expression (regex) is a sequence of characters that define a pattern that allows you to search, match, locate, replace, manipulate, and manage text. Regular expressions are very powerful, but also difficult to understand and complicated to use. More ...
Regular Expressions Lookarounds
In this article you learn how to match a pattern only when it comes after another pattern (or after not that pattern) or only when it comes before another pattern (or before not that pattern). More ...
Convert Mixed Number to Decimal
Wouldn't it be convenient if the user was allowed to enter mixed numbers into a form rather than having to mentally convert them decimals? This code is designed to accept both decimal and mixed number input. More ...
Password Protection Using the Frames Method
One method of password protecting your webpages is to use a cookie, but cookies are unreliable. If you can't trust a cookie to store the information that the user is logged in, where can you store it? In this example I'll show you how to use frames for JavaScript password security. More ...
