My JavaScript Blog

• Table Generator 2 September, 2010
  How many times have you tried to code a table and then found that your web page is totally stuffed up in one or more browsers because you left out a tag? This JavaScript driven table generator will solve this problem for you by creating all of the necessary tags for you for whatever sized table that you choose. It will even create some basic stylesheet entri […]
• Multiple Requests 1 September, 2010
  In all of the preceding Ajax tutorials we have looked at how to use Ajax to make a single request to the server. Because we are making asynchronous requests there is nothing to stop us from sending multiple requests back to the server to retrieve different things all at the same time. In this thirteenth Ajax tutorial we look at how we can set up multiple req […]
• Toggle Action 31 August, 2010
  Web pages are usually stateless - meaning that when someone visits a web page the page behaves the same regardless of what they did before. To allow a web page to behave differently based on what has gone on before you need a way to save information about what has come before. The way to do this is to store a cookie on your visitor's computer that conta […]
• Event Modifiers 30 August, 2010
  It is possible to use keys on the keyboard to change what clicking a mouse button does. There are only a few keys on the keyboard that can be used to do it easily though. Event Modifiers […]
• Functions and Methods 29 August, 2010
  In JavaScript all functions are methods. The difference between a function and a method in JavaScript is mostly a matter of terminology. If you are using a procedural approach you will call them functions and if you are using an object oriented approach then you'll call them methods. While functions and methods are actually different from one another, i […]