Hello, Script Tip Folk…
Let’s start looking at a new script. This is a little more involved than the last one, so we should be able to really tear it apart and get a lot out of it.
Basically, here’s what this script does:
- Posts a dialogue box when a person enters the page.
- The box has text on it that can be altered.
- The box gives the user the opportunity to click OK to enter the page or Cancel not to enter the page.
- If the user clicks OK, then the page loads as usual.
- If the user clicks Cancel, then the script reloads the page the user was coming from.
The script is Copyright ) JemWeb 1997, but HTML Goodies has permission to use it to help you along with your JavaScripting.
That said, here’s what it looks like:
How about that? All that functionality in such a small script!
We’ll start tearing this pup apart by looking at the very first line in the script:
