Joe Burns

The Spirit of Script Tips…      I have had a tutorial on HTML Goodies for a while now that explains how to get a drop down menu in Internet Explorer. The process is built out of SPAN commands with a little JavaScript to make it all run. If you’d like to visit, head to https://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/menu.html. […]

Hey, Tippy… Okay, let’s talk about that confirm statement. Here’s the script once again: function JemWebCONFIRM() {if (!confirm (“YOUR MESSAGE GOES HERE”)) history.go(-1);return ” “} Confirm. Verb. The act of verifying a statement. That’s the point of the confirm statement. Take a moment and look again at what the script does. Try […]

Hey, Tippo… It’s back to the big browser choice script and its catch-all last section. First off, if you need to refresh yourself on the script, here it is: Click to See the Script Last week we talked about the general concept of the script. It’s saying that if the browser is this version and […]

Tip Top… Hey, hey! We’re good to go with the running digital clock this time around. This is a big, involved piece of code that you’ll love. I do. Of course… I wrote it! Click the button to get the time. Here’s the Code for the Clock As we did with the last scriptwe tore […]

Qwisp Tip…      OK! The cookie is set. Now we need to use coding to go get it. In the case of this script, the display is immediately after setting the cookie. Keep in mind that that doesn’t always have to be the case. You can easily split this code up and set on one […]

Hey there…      This is the third in a string of JavaScript password scripts. In this script we again use a format in which the password is the name of the page to be linked to, except in this one, the concept is further hidden because the user will not put in the name of […]

Around the Script in 80 Tips…      Last week we hit upon the doit() function. That function is actually sitting inside of a larger function named DelHTML(). You can probably guess that the name is shorthand for “Delete HTML”. Today we’ll figure out how it works and wrap this script up. The Script’s Effect Here’s […]

Tip One JavaScript is a great computer language in that it is quite versatile and can be understood by the common Weekend Silicon Warrior. Here, we start off a series of tips to help you place JavaScript on your HTML pages. We’ll start with the basics. JavaScript offers the user a series of what it […]

Hi, Tip… We’ll take one more look at the big browser detect script. This time around we’ll discuss the author setting up variables as the script goes along. Take a quick look at the script again: Click to see the Script Up until now, the scripts you’ve seen have all had the variables set up […]

Mr. Tip, I presume? Okay, hey! New script this week! This script is great in that it produces a random number between 1 and any number. You can set the upper limit within the script. The output of the script looks like this: And here’s what it all looks like:

Tip to my Lou…      I received this “Proportional” script from Ann Evans. It’s a great idea. You enter the height and width of an image you want to resize. Then, by entering a new height, the script figures the new width, keeping the same proportions the image originally had.      I really liked the script, […]

The Tipster… Tip-O-Rama… Once again we’re dealing with a random number script or set of scripts (it’s actually two). Here again is what the script’s output looks like followed by the script itself. And here’s what it all looks like: