JavaScript

Posts about the client side scripting language JavaScript.

JavaScript Redirects

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 11:07

There are two main ways in which to redirect the browser using JavaScript, both of which look at the location of the window object. These are the location.href property and location.replace function.

location.href

The following example will cause the page to redirect to another page, keeping the browser history. This might seem like a minor point, but if you redirect a user to another page they will be able to click back, which will mean that they are redirected again.

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Search A Table With JavaScript

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 11:33

Using server side scripts to search for things can be as complex or as simple as the situation requires. However, if you have a table of results and you just want to enable a simple JavaScript search on that table then this might be the script for you.

To search a table using JavaScript you need to split the table into bits, this can be done using the getElementsByTagName() function, which takes the name of the element that you want to capture. So to grab all of the rows of a table as an array you need to pass the value of tr.

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Irritating JavaScript Virus Message Popup And Redirect

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 11:17

The other day I was approached by a friend who had this odd looking virus message on their screen. They said that they hadn't been doing anything in particular, just writing an email and surfing the net in Firefox when all of a sudden this pop-up appeared on screen and told them they had a virus.

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Typewriter Script

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - 11:15

The following script can be used if you want to simulate a typewriter in an element on screen. I have put in a lot of comments to describe what is happening but the script works by taking each array element in turn and adding it character by character to the content of the selected element.

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