My JavaScript Blog

• More Properties of RegExp 21 March, 2010
  The twenty first tutorial on Regular Expressions looks at those properties of Regular Expressions that are not often used. While most of you will never use any of the properties that I have listed here, they are still worth knowing about just in case they are appropriate to use for a particular task. More Properties of RegExpMore Properties of RegExp origina […]
• Automatic Language Selection 20 March, 2010
  Do you want to put multiple language versions of your content onto your site. JavaScript can't help you do the translations but it can help when it comes to selecting which page to display. Your visitors already have their computer configured for a particular language and using this small piece of JavaScript you can automatically select to display web p […]
• 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 […]