Javascript is a programming or scripting language primarily used for client-sided programming in web browsers. It can also be used as a server-side programming language but this is generally used less often. Javascript was originally created by Netscape for their browser Netscape Navigator, and is now an implementation of the ECMAScript standard. It is typically used in web browsers for form validation, floating navigation, AJAX and other nifty things to make web pages more interactive.
On my soon to be launched New Zealand Running Calendar, I have the location map of the running event on a Google Map. This map can be viewed either on a regular page or via an AJAX call in a jQuery Facebox popup window. However I had issues with the map displaying in the popup as shown in this post along with the solution.
This post looks at how to find the position of a character or a string within a string with Javascript using the indexOf function.
Yesterday I posted how to grey out a web page which is useful when showing a Javascript dialog box and in this post show how to do the same when using the jQuery Facebox plugin. The Facebox plugin makes dialog boxes that look like the ones in Facebook.
On the odd occasion when I need to open a popup window with Javascript I always have to reach for my O'Reilly Javascript book,
jQuery is a Javascript framework which can simplify coding Javascript for a website and removes a lot of cross browser compatibility issues.
jQuery is a Javascript framework which can simplify coding Javascript for a website and removes a lot of cross browser compatibility issues. This post looks at how to get and set the values of HTML form elements with jQuery.