Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / JavaScript / February 2007

THE QUESTION: How do I get a reference to my Object when processing an
event handler bound to an html element ?
CONTEXT:
Sorry if it is a bit long.

I have a very simple html table with collapsible rows and sorting
capabilities. The collapsible row is hidden with css rule
(display:none). When one clicks in the left of the expandable row, the
hidden row is made visible with css. The problem is when i sort the

Found a bit of Javascript on this forum that shows the title-text of a
link in the statusbar, so you don't have to type
onmouseover="window.status='bla di bla'" in every link.
http://groups.google.nl/group/comp.lang.javascript/browse_thread/thread/16906e69
836826c3/4922a5c1a40fd2a1

Mozilla reported the fix to this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167801.
When input text field is located over div, the cursor cannot be seen
unless special CSS properties are applied. The link above illustrates
many example.

I need to get a element create dynamically by its name. It's ok for
FF, but on IE, getElementsByName return "undefined".
I create this code but not sure that it can work on older IE ....if
someone can test this code on older IE ?

I'm a beginner to DHTML. I have a javascript function that gets called
a lot from buttons etc within an html file. The first thing this
function does is a "document.getElementsById" call which I'm assuming
could be pretty expensive.

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FAQ Topic - How do I make a 10 second delay?
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There is no built-in way to pause execution in javascript such

It took me a while to figure out this error
      functiom method1(){ alert(); }
by this error message
      missing ; before statement

Ik ben bezig met een eigen UBB editor. Als iemand aan het typen is,
zorgt CTRL-B voor een \[b]-tag en  nogmaals CTRL-B voor een \[/b] tag.
Als je eerst een selectie maakt en dan CTRL-B drukt, wordt de selectie
ingesloten door \[b] en \[/b], net als hier op GoT.

I am trying to return focus to a form input field.
If i use <form>.<field>.focus() the focus returns to the field but if
the field already contains a value it selects it (blacks it out).
Is it possible to focus on a input field but rather than selecting any

This is my first firefox extension, and I'm trying to collect some
information from several sites and mash'em up into one page. But I
need to do processing specific to each asynchronous request. All the
examples I've found use a global httpRequest object that is processed

hi am making a webpage for a client that has a lot of text on thier
site, i have a photoshop template that i created and i want the text
to fit in a small part of  template, can anybody point me in the
direction of a quick scroll bar that doesnt have any bells and

I my Javascript I popup an authentication window using the command;
    unamePasswdWindow = open("auth.html","","width=500,height=100");
This works fine in IE, and in Firefox 2.x on Windows and Linux, but the
open() just returns a null in Firefox 1.5 on Tru64 Unix.

When I use document.write to replace the comment of a frame,
I found that the page was always showing as loading in Firefox
(2.0.0.2).
But it seems that it is OK in IE6.

I have a javascript problem, that I hope to get some help with.
If you take a look at http://www.eliasen.dk/oio/da/Invoice.html you
will see a web page, and somewhere on the page there is a table with
"Felter". The table has rows, and some of them have id's and some of