A wrapper on top of createElement for getting around IE problems with manipulating the name attribute. Unlike most solutions for this, it tests for which method to use once when the page loads rather than every time an element is created. By Chaos of Lost Souls MUD (a text-based fantasy RPG).

Set a word or phrase in an input field, clear it onfocus

A simple demo of the google maps API

I had searched high and low for a way to generate a palette of web-safe colors. Despite Google's best efforts, what I had found was lacking for my needs. So, I decided to write a library that would generate all 216 web safe colors, and then allow me to manipulate those colors in any way that I chose.

If anybody is curious as to why I would want to do something so... simple, it is because I needed a very light-weight color picker, and didn't want to mess with any fancy options.

Similar to Perl's CGI::escapeHTML(), though (because we can!) this adds it as a method to all String objects.

It works with Array types. The example is a simple list of numbers, but the array could contain anything; lists of strings, functions, DOM nodes, whatever. Unfortunately, a lot of things that seem like arrays in the DOM aren't really, so you can't shuffle the images on a page with just document.images.shuffle() all by itself.

Hi. i found this css file very useful for all the newbies who use frontpage2003 text. Just try this css code and specially for color text.
(Explanation on how to upload a css file in frontpage for newbies)
assuming that you already have index.html and you have some text in it describing also.
in frontpage open file new and then delete all the tagson the page and just copy and paste the code which i have posted. save the page as a .css file. after that go to your index page or any other page you would like to link with this css file. in the Index page go to format and then style sheet links and then click on add and find the .css file and click on and select for all pages or just for the index page and then click ok. have fu

This is an analog clock script designed to jump in place of a div element of class 'analogclock'.

The div tag is not replaced in this custom element, but instead is used as a pseudo-document to hold the clock itself. The 'hands' are implemented using arrays of generated divs.

I was actually inspired to write this widget because of an article on About.com's Javascript pages written by a guy named Stephen Chapman. His code was a mess, but I only discovered this after delving through two layers of 'unescape()' obfuscation.

The basics: You control the look of the numbers and the 'box' model of the clock using basic CSS. You control the clock's size (it will always be square) using the 'size' attribute.

The 'seconds', 'minutes', and 'hours' attributes are for the color of the 'hand's. 'numstyle' can be 1, i, I, or '.', each refering to a different type of face-numbering for the clock

The 'localzone' attribute tells the script to use the user's local time zone. If it's '0', 'false' or 'no', the clock will use the 'clockzone' attribute to determine what time it is (the clock zone is relative to GMT, so, for example, US Eastern is -5. The clock automagically figures out if we're in DST, so you don't have to.)

The 'city' and 'country' are for if you want to put in the city/country of origin for your clock. To be honest, you can put anything there.

Lastly, I designed my version of the clock to be able to not 'tick', i.e., work like the old-school analog clocks. If you want ticking, add 'tick=1' to the attribute list

As with all of my widgets, the idea here is that you can just include the .js file and start dropping in tags without needing to know any ECMAScript at all.

Additionally, for you ECMAScripters, I was very careful to keep my pollution of the global namespace to one class: analogClock.

Example of use:

This is a simple script to provide basic cross-platform XML request functionality in Javascript. It's meant to be the core component in any AJAX style framework. It is not an instantiable object, but instead is a namespaced microlibrary.

Calling is easy:
XMLRequest.GET(uri, query, callback, fallback)
uri: The location you're after
query: an associative array of form data to provide via the URL
callback: callback function of the form myCallbackFunction(objXMLHttpRequest), which is called upon successful (response = 200 OK) retrieval of the XML data
fallback: myFallbackFunction(objXMLHttpRequest), which is called upon failed (response != 200 OK) retrieval of the XML data.

XMLRequest.POST(uri, query, form, callback, fallback)
Similar, but does the query using the POST method. 'query' is the URL-appended data, still in associative array form, and 'form' is the same for the POST data.

This is a brief revision to my previous snippet. It is still what it was: a small, simple system for using XMLHttpRequest without using globals.

I'll put the API spec in the code this time, so as not to clutter the front page further.

Changes:

Changed name to HTTPRequest (far more accurate)
Added HEAD requests
Shortened code by making a GenericRequest function
Used a better method for getting an XMLHttpRequest object (checks multiple MS versions and implements the latest one)