HTML and JavaScript
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JavaScript and HTML How To's
The following JavaScript how-to's are currently available from this site. These how-to's are limited to information which has proved difficult to find elsewhere or which have proved to be particularly useful for the developers of this site:
Relating to dynamic HTML (DHTML):
- How to do rollovers
- How to dynamically load any html file component
- How to hide or change the message displayed in the status bar
Relating to images and colours:
- What colour names are supported in HTML?
- How to control the load order of images
- How to add a page icon (favicon.ico)
- How to add a site icon (favicon.ico)
- Different Colour Bullet Lists
Relating to forms and data passing:
- How to pass data from one page to another
- How to validate a form before submitting it
- How to auto-grow a textarea
A variety of slide show and gallery scripts:
- How to implement an automatic slide show
- How to implement a manual slide show
- How to implement a photo gallery
- How to implement a slide show that runs through once and stops
- How to implement an automatic slide show with links
- How to implement a photo gallery driven by clickable thumbnails, with next and previous links
and the rest:
- Article: Tips on attracting visitors
- Article: Tips on designing a page for faster download
- Fun with Bullet Lists (or how to change the appearance of a bullet list)
- How to automatically redirect the browser to another page
- How to create a custom 404 page (i.e. page not found)
- How to detect which type of browser is being used (and browser capabilities)
- How to determine the nationality of a visitor
- How to fade one image into another
- How one JavaScript file can cause another JavaScript file to be included
- How to prevent a page from being framed
- How to respond to a key press using JavaScript
- How to return to the previous page
- Meta tags - What meta tags are available?
Html and JavaScript Links
There are plenty of sites on the net that provide information and advice on HTML and JavaScript. The following is a collection of sites that have proved useful to the developers of this site:
- www.irt.org
- Excellent site to look up information about HTML, JavaScript and a host of related topics.
- www.htmlgoodies.com
- This site has a good set of tutorials on most aspects of HTML and web page design. It is a very good starting point.
- www.javascriptkit.com
- Large site providing information on JavaScript, DHTML, CSS and more.
- www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/index.html
- A good site for interesting JavaScript information.
- http://vzone.virgin.net/sizzling.jalfrezi/iniframe.htm
- Excellent introduction to style sheets.
- www.w3schools.com
- W3Schools provides a collection of free HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, XML, XHTML, WAP, ASP, SQL tutorials with lots of working examples and source code.