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Thanks sooooo much for the javascript tutorial, was looking everywhere for how to make a page within a frameset change the location of the opener page, found it here, sunday morning 2am before a monday deadline, guess how happy I am.
Thanks a bunch.
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Why'd you take the search box off the top of the page? Are you trying for more ad clickthroughs? Whatever. I'll still come to your site whenever I need javascript help. But I liked the box better at the top!
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Why do I get the impression that your site is out of date?
Some great tips are here but sadly lacking uptodate modifications.
"Can't be done!" is too common, most items CAN be done with CGI but this section is poor!
It is a great site but you must update it!
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Obviously the product of much design work. My only problem with this (and pages like it) is that there are too many otpions. You can spend 10 minutes trying to figure out what to click on first.
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Hi,
This web site made my work very simple. It helped me a lot. Thanks and Regds
Antony
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Quick first impression - I'm supposed to look at a site whose home page title is "Home Page" for web design tips?
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Just wanted to drop you all a note to say that in my search over the years for solid and explicit technical help for various site design questions that arise, I've never found a single resource as consumate as IRT.ORG. No bullshit! This is better than any MS KB article or site I've EVERY seen. (and I've seen a few in 6 years).
Thanx for all of the help... Really!
One gripe, however, is that nearly all of the articles are sized in tables that require me to view full screen @ 1152x864. Some of them are even longer than that.
Other than this, I am extremely pleased with the aid I have received. Please keep up the good work.
-Brian
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I'm looking for a way to have a user enter a user name and password and it directs him to a web site. the web site could be difrent for each user. Do you know of a way to do this and if so could you supply some reference code?
Thanks
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I've loved your FAQ sites on Javascript Frames and Javascript windows... I'm trying to do a lot with Javascript right now. The only problem is that when I was trying to access your web site today, it was very slow... I had to wait > 1 minute to access your main page. At the company where I work www.clickarray.com we sell a product that will provide Web Site acceleration through content caching and server load balancing. Its pretty affordable too. The base model is only 8000 dollars. Feel free to contact me if you are interested.
Thanks.
Edward Tsai
etsai@clickarray.com
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I'll be back to visit often now that I have found this site.
BTW, the is a line error on Line 189 of the page http://www.irt.org/cgi-bin/feedback.pl?subject=irt%2eorg%20Home%20Page&author=martin, "Expected ']' is reported. Maybe something in my setup, but I mention it just in case.
Tommy.
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Hi,
I was searching the site with query "child window close", looking for an answer to my problem 'how do I close a child window with onclick on the body of the parent'. I followed the instructions I found & copied the code provided for some users' faq's, only to discover that some of the solutions the site provides don't work. Are these solutions tested on modern browsers ? Is the site still being maintained ?
Thanks
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Hi,
This site is very very useful..
But got a question !
I would like to help out people
on ASP faq section and send my
code snippets and applications which are developed by me.
Awaiting your reply.
Thanks
Kerem
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Question: I'm using the following code on my menu buttons. I'm also using a preload images script but they are very very slow once uploaded onto the net. They work fine on the computer though.
onMouseOver="document.tababout.src='images/tab_about_ov.gif';status='About AMI';return true" onMouseOut="document.tababout.src='images/tab_about.gif';status='About AMI';return true"
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I found what seemed an answer to my question (how do you disable a function loop), but the advice (add a break) did not work. I keep getting an error message, no matter where I positioned the break.
I'm just trying to configure a script I got from someone in Russia - and I don't speak Russian! :< Hutchy
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Hi everybody,
I just found your page and must say that this is the best source I found so far any any programing related theme. I am here searching for a solution to a javascript programing problem and experienced the by far widest selection on topics concerning any angle of programing. Please keep up this great work. I appreciate it.
Kindest regards
Christopher Amandi
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how can I get an example of using the answer to your: Q224 How can I change an image in another frame using onMouseOver?
Thanks
Rob
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You guys are the PHPBuilder.com of Javascript. Thank you very much for your services!
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I like your site, and I refer to it often. I'm curious about one thing, though. I see a reference to a "property" I'm not familiar with on some pages. When Javascript examples are provided, sometimes they include something worded as "NoLocation". What is this? I can't find any information about this. An example of a page with this is at http://developer.irt.org/script/96.htm.
Thanks,
Kirt
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Love your site and your helps have been so valuable!
I have run into a problem that I can not seem to find an answer to - I know that your team must be very busy, but if anyone has the time to spare a few minutes for me I would appreciate it.
April Eversole
Pinellas County Schools, FL - Webmaster
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Just a note: on the page http://www.irt.org/xref/SCRIPT.htm you state that the javascript script object is supported in Netscape 6(+). Not true. I've been testing with Metscape 6.2 on Windows and Mac and neither recognizes either the scripts array or named scripts as part of the document object. Attempts to access a particular script's properties return "undefined" messages regarding the script.
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Hi, I'm hoping you can help me, bc I'm pulling the hair out of my head. I have a very large website and I'm trying to get one of my pages to open as a very small page - I can't find the code to do this anywhere. I want someone to be able to click on a normal link from my menu page.. and the page it opens to be very small (I want to be control the size). Can you please help me? Pretty please?
Thx, Brooklyn Heart
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For Q1658, THERE ARE TWO ERRORS IN THIS CODE!
1st, it does not insert, but overwrites the character.
2nd, it has position 4 hard coded in, so it will not make use of the nth position.
How do I automatically insert a character after every Nth character in a string?
<script language="JavaScript"></script>
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I think irt.org is a very valuable resource!!!
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Very good javascript FAQ!
Direct to the point.
Keep up the good job!
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This is the only site that solves most of my problems. Thanks for this site.
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I have been searching forever for a little java jewel I found on your site. THANK YOU!!! You have helped me tremendously, and I appreciate the time you have taken to put this site together. Next time I have a question, I will start here first!
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As a routine I read an article in thr morning as i drink my cup of coffee. Out of curiosity, do any new artciles plan to be released?
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I like this site and have been coming here for years.
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Hi, I just came across your website thanks to Google and your site is extremely helpful. One of the best I've seen so far! Just wanted to say thanks. I'm looking to see if anyone can help me with a script. I'm trying to write a script that will redirect visitors depending on the date (different page for new years, etc.). One of the problems I'm running into is that certain holidays don't have a fixed numeric day (i.e. - thanksgiving) which is making it difficult. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.
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Get a php section in there! I'm a php coder who uses your site for a css and javascript reference regularly. Give it a php section and i'll be sorted :)
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Nice web page. How long did it take you to learn to be a web designer. I tried coldfusion for awhile. Have frontpage2000 and drumbeat. I would like to get into same field. I am a retired NY State Programmer-Anaalyst Have used various data base programs.
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I have always loved this site and it has helped me out a lot, thank you. The ads now though are just too intrusive. I 21 identical popup wondows to close now, there goes another, make it 22.
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The information help me to build dropdowndown box in different frame.
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Im having issues trying to find a source for javascript which actually has the latest functionality. After searching google and finding your site I clicked straight into mouse events as Im trying to learn how to use them more successfully. I thought your website looked good as you seem to use references from W3C but I was supprised to find that you specifically state that onMouseover wont work were as onMouseOver will!!! :0 W3C states that all event handlers are to be wrote in lowercase, I therefore am not even going to bother reading any more.
http://www.irt.org/articles/js169/index.htm#3.4
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Your suggestions are very helpful.
I made some minor changes to suit my websites that are built with NetObjects Fusion:
- There's no need to reference the CSS page since NoF does that automatically. I simply created another web page with the correct layout;
- On the page, I created a text box with a note about the redirection and reminder to update favorites or other URLs;
- NoF doesn't let me alter the <BODY> tag so instead I used the <script> and </script> tags to call the Javascript onload function, inserting this chunk of HTML into the text box using NoF's "Text -> Insert HTML" menu functions;
- I added the Javascript and HTML redirect code to the page header area using NoF's "HTML Source" tab;
- I reduced the time from 10 to 5 seconds, and even that is too long for quick readers!;
- I marked the page 'Exclude from navigation' in NoF's site view so that it does not appear on the site menus.
Granted it might have been easier to create the entire page from scratch in Notepad but doing it in NoF means it is readily maintained in NoF alongside all the rest of the website.
Many thanks for your excellent advice in the first place.
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JavaScript frame question: If I am hosting a frameset and one of the frames is hosting an external html document from another domain and that document contains frame-buster code, is there any way to prevent that JavaScript from executing?
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I've been playing your Mastermind game for two days now. Like it a lot, but wanted to let you know that it makes mistakes sometimes. I've played about 50 games (usually the with the most advanced/complicated settings possible) and have been given wrong feedback in 5 games thus far. I'm not at all a computer person, but I imagine that this would be a very easy game (for you) to program and fix. While you're at it, it would be great if you could avoid having two colors -- tan and medium brown -- that are so hard to distinguish from each other. Don't know if anybody reads user feedback, but if you do I hope you're willing to look into this. Thanks so much for your great site.
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I am a hobby coder with hybrid skills. this is exactly what is was looking for - simple,clean and efficient.
I am writing a xml reader that will allow users to browse to file to load it into the parse - this fits the bill exactly.
thanks guys ! great work.
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I tried to read your Faq 16 and ran into a javascript error loop. No idea how helpful your site is, but that doesn't look good on a developer "how to" site. As an aside the CSS for this popup is off by quite a bit on your radio selectors, and the navigation doesnt close unless you click on something...annoying!
I suspect you developed/tested this site for just one browser, and whether we like it or not, Firefox is not the only browser on the planet.
Thanks for putting the effort out there though.
Doug
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but how can i get returned String value of this java method in javascript?
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Dear IRT.org,
The more I dig into javascript, the dumber I feel. Maybe you can
help. I've been reading
<http://www.felgall.com/jstip27.htm>,
<http://www.phpcaptcha.org/documentation/quickstart/>,
<http://www.irt.org/script/292.htm>, and a bunch of other pages, but
I'm still not getting the whole picture.
I'm trying to use PHP CAPTCHA in what I think is AJAX mode where
the user stays on the same page if validation fails and <INPUT> text
remains unchanged, but when validation succeeds, the form's action
script executes. Instinct tells me there that must be a way to use
securimage within a Javascript function that you could access through an onclick or onSubmit function.
Part of the problem may be that I don't understand how code like this works:
onclick="document.getElementById('captcha').src =
'/securimage/securimage_show.php?' + Math.random(); return false"
If you look at securimage_show.php, there's no obvious processing of the Query string. How is the argument being captured?
Similarly, if you read securimage's example_form.php, they show the
CAPTCHA image with: <img src="securimage_show.php?sid=<?php echo
md5(uniqid(time())); ?>">. This is a second use of securimage_show.php that seems to be accepting a query string, yet has no visible means of grabbing the 'sid' parameter. How does that
work?
Am I trying to accomplish the impossible? I would really appreciate
a reference for a tutorial on this subject, an example implementation, or just an explanation of how to get the CAPTCHA code (which comes from PHP) and the <INPUT> field value into a javascript function.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Mike
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RE scrolling text . . . help . . . what would the code be for reading the scroller text from a file rather than hard hammering the message within the <script /> tags. I have people who will inadvertently maul the markup if given a chance. I'd rather they just worked with an external txt or html file.
(Great work . . . best scroller I've found. Most don't provide a stop button. NECESSARY.)
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
var scroll2 = true;
var myDir = 'L';
//keep leading and lagging spaces for delay between repeats
var scrollingText2 = "
MESSAGE FROM EXTERNAL FILE HERE instead of typing "hello world" here.
";
function scrollit2() {
if (scroll2) {
document.scrolling2.textbox.value = scrollingText2;
if (myDir == 'L')
scrollingText2 = scrollingText2.substring(1) +
scrollingText2.substring(0,1);
else
scrollingText2 = scrollingText2.substring(scrollingText2.length-1,scrollingText2.length) +
scrollingText2.substring(0,scrollingText2.length-1);
setTimeout('scrollit2()',120);
}
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
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Dan Hines, your trim JS trim function was helpful.. IRT.ORG is very useful. Contributors, well done.!!
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I have a Mild Brian Injury Trauma (MBIT). My therapist has recommended that I play games such as Mastermind for therapy on logic. I have a laptop computer (a Mac) that is not connected to the Internet. Is it possible for me to download a version of Mastermind and/or other games so that I can use them in places other than where I can connect to the internet?
Can I download Mastermind for my own personal use?
Thanks,
Andy
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The mastermind game scored incorrectly. Email me back so I can see your email address to forward the screenshot to.