My JavaScript Blog

• Arrays 10 March, 2010
  You don't need to define separate fields for similar items in JavaScript, you can make them an array instead. Arrays are the most commonly used of the types of object built into JavaScript. In this twelfth tutorial on "Modern JavaScript" we look at the difference between Objects and Arrays. ArraysArrays originally appeared on About.com Focus o […]
• JavaScript Events 9 March, 2010
  The main way of using JavaScript with a web page is to have pieces of JavaScript that run when specifiic events occur. There are a number of different types of event that can trigger the running of your JavaScript as well as several ways of attaching the JavaScript to the event. JavaScript EventsJavaScript Events originally appeared on About.com Focus on Jav […]
• Light Mixer 8 March, 2010
  Some time ago I created a watercolour mixer script that allows people to see the effects of mixing watercolour paints on their computer screen. This was somewhat more complex than it might appear to be since paint and the light that the computer screens use do not work the same way with regard to mixing colours together. Following requests for a similar ligh […]
• The RegExp Object 7 March, 2010
  There is more than one way to define a regular expression in JavaScript. Regular expressions are actually instances of RegExp objects at the nineteenth tutorial in the Regular Expressions series explains. The RegExp ObjectThe RegExp Object originally appeared on About.com Focus on JavaScript on Sunday, March 7th, 2010 at 16:08:36.Permalink | Comment | Email […]
• Breaking Text into Chunks 6 March, 2010
  Usually when writing something in code the text is broken up into a number of chunks each of which contains the same number of characters. There are of course other reasons why you might want to split up a string of text into a number of pieces that all contain the same number of characters. We can easily add our own method to JavaScript that will do this wi […]