Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / JavaScript / August 2005

How would I generate a even random number each time? I can generate a
random number each time but not an even one? Here is the code I use for
the random number from 1-100.
<script type="text/javascript">

What's the best (i.e. fastest) way to find out if an array contains a given
value?  Other than looping, the only way I know to do it is to use an
associative array/hash instead....
Is there a better/faster way?

Such as:
<script>
//code
aaaa

    I would like to get the clients date and time (his system time) and
store it somewhere so I can use it in my code later. (insert it to
database!).
    Any ideas

I'm (still) working on an ISO 8601 date parser.  I want to convert at least
the formats described here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
Well.. I've got most of it working (via RegEx's) good enough for me but I'm

<a href="view_details.php"
onClick="window.open('view_details.php?id=<?=$row['id'];?>&sname=<?=$row['sname'];?>')">
details</a>
Have got this so far but need to get the width and height set. Cannot seem

I was wondering if anyone has enough familiarity with the ActiveX
scripting implementation of javascript to answer if it would be
possible to define a new language for the engine, and for the
implementation inheriting from the javascript implementation, adding in

I know for a fact that it is an object and I'm pretty sure that it
isn't null.  I will give you a link to the page that I'm
troubleshooting even though it's embarrassingly ugly.  Does anyone have
an idea of why it's not seeing the <select name=finish> on Line 183 in

Here is my code, and it's not working.  Please help me get through
this.  I've read every single tutorial and you may even see remnants of
some of their variables in my code.  I don't know if I'm close, but I
feel that I'm getting there.

I'm new to JavaScript, I wonder if there is something out there
JavaScript application which allows to edit/create plan of arrangement
e.g. office - I mean   to chose element (image) from list and place it
(by drag and drop, or another way) in plan area. Such plan when created

So, I'm doing the following in a php script so that I can fire a
download dialogue AND redirect the page (after clicking submit in a
form).  I'm doing it this way because of the problem with headers and
such and server-side vs client-side issues:

I have a situation where I need to be able to refresh a windows parent
parent. I can not seem to use anything like
window.opener.parent.location.reload()
as by the time I execute the statement the parent has closed and all

I need to create a dynamically pattern match
for validate a number input, first without
decimals and then with 2 or more decimals.
Thanks in advance,

is there a way to edit the content of a div ? for instance to change :
<div>
foo
</div>

Please, can somebody help me with this? I have two iframes. The
contents of the first iframe are changed dynamically at run time. I
want to take the contents of the first iframe and display them in the
second iframe. Is it possible to do this? I tried using the following