Make Your Own Graphical Digital Clock
One of the most fun, interesting, and educational things you can do with Java Script is to make your own image-based digital clock. The fun part is selecting or creating your own images for the digits and other graphical elements of the clock. You can use 3D digits, digits that look like baby blocks, or digits made out of animals. 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 ...
Easy Animated Banners with Java Script
In this article, I will show you how to use Java Script to create an animated banner. Using Java Script allows you to edit or replace images in the animation sequence, and change the amount of time each image is displayed without doing any recompiling. More ...
Allowing Multiple Selections from Drop-down Select List
An HTML Select list is a form control used to create a drop-down list of items from which the user can select. You can allow the user to select multiple items in the list by setting its multiple attribute. More ...
Easy Fading Text Banner Code
In this article you learn how to create a fading text banner, a fading text banner with several different messages that fade in and out, and a fading image banner with several different image banners that fade in and out. You also learn how to use the document.write method so that you can give a link to others to include your banners in their webpage. More ...
Creating Basic Java Script Functions
In this article you learn how to create basic Java Script functions. You learn how to use parameters and how to return values, including how to return an array from a function. The article also intoduces variable scope. More ...
Four Ways to Use Java Script Event Handlers
Almost everything on a webpage is an "object". Almost all objects can respond to an event. You can control what an object does in response to an event by creating an event handler. In this article, you'll learn four different ways to connect an event handler to an event. 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 ...
Basic State Machines
A State Machine is a program, logic circuit, or mechanical device, that has a finite number of legal states. For example a traffic control signal can be red, yellow, or green. It can't be red and green. It can't be violet. More ...
Easy Slide Show Code
One of the problems with creating such a slide show is that the images should all be the same size. If the images are not all the same size, your web page may grow and shrink as the different images
are displayed. More ...
Prevent Automated Form Submissions With Java Script
Spammers have robots that search the Web for such forms and when they find one, they use automated programs to submit thousands of spam. Webmasters have developed a method to prevent such abuse. In this article, I show you three different examples of using Java Script to implement this method for your own web form. More ...
Easy Java Script Animation
There are many ways to create an animation, but the simplest way is to use Java Script along with CSS. In this article, I show you how to create simple Java Script animations. More ...
