My JavaScript Blog

• Site Redirect 19 March, 2010
  JavaScript can help when you move your site. If you don't have your own domain name then when you move your site it will end up on a new domain. If you have any common JavaScripts shared between pages then you can easily update that script to redirect all of the pages on your old site to the corresponding page on the new one. Site RedirectSite Redirect […]
• Modern Combo Box 18 March, 2010
  One of the new form field types that is proposed to be added in HTML 5 is the combo box. We don't need to wait until then to use combo boxes in our forms though because we can use JavaScript to create our own combo box right now. For those of you who don't know what a combo box is, it not only allows you to select an entry from the list, it also al […]
• NodeLists 17 March, 2010
  When you use getElementsByTagName or getElementsByName JavaScript receives a nodelist and not an array. While the nodelist that some DOM calls return to JavaScript looks a little like an array there are some important differences as this thirteenth modern JavaScript tutorial explains. NodeListsNodeLists originally appeared on About.com Focus on JavaScript on […]
• Synchronising JavaScripts 16 March, 2010
  When we speed up our JavaScript downloads by letting them download in parallel we lose control over which will run first as they will each run when they finish downloading. If there is a dependency between the scripts then you will need to modify the code in the one that is supposed to run second so that it can handle if it ends up running first. Synchronisi […]
• The Best Place to Attach JavaScript 15 March, 2010
  When it comes to modern unobtrusive JavaScript the only references to JavaScript in your HTML should be script tags to reference the external scripts that handle everything else that is JavaScript related. There are two possible places to put those script tags and here we look at the pros and cons of each. The Best Place to Attach JavaScript The Best Place t […]