Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / JavaScript / October 2008

I'm currently writing a web application for bicycle wheel builders
that calculate the spoke length for all sorts of variations of hubs
and rims.
I have translated the formula from an Excel spreadsheet and in

The following input checkbox onclick via DOM is not working on IE7, FF, or
WebKit, but is working on Opera for some strange reason.
       http://www.aarongray.org/Test/JavaScript/checkbox.html
Here's the code :-

I've recently been struggling with the idea of writing an XML document
based on user-submitted content using javascript.
Using various instances of document.write on a newly opened window I
succeeded in the task of outputting a perfectly valid XML document,

I'm looking for a standalone Javascript interpreter like the ones of
Perl and Python. Does such a thing exist for Linux?
Thanks in advance.
    -Erik

I'm quite new to web development, so please be kind ;)
I have a JS-function called getObjURL() which should return an URL-
String of an JS-object.
In the body part I use something like this:

I am finding that <input type="checkbox" onchange="alert('test')"></input>
does not seem to work properly on IE7.
   http://www.aarongray.org/Test/JavaScript/checkbox.html
It works fine on FF and Google Chrome.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
FAQ Topic - Why does simple decimal arithmetic give strange
results?
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

A script I've implemented is doing this annoying thing where it works in
mozilla only if you have Firebug installed.
I was all excited to find someone had solved what sounded like the same
problem, as outlined in <a href =

Hi why if I have a DIV I can raise an onclick event only on the inner
DIVs and not
on the whole area? (Firefox does it)
  <div id="submenu" class="style1">

Maybe this should not be asked here, but is there a good SIMPLE visual
javascript editor?
I would like to make simple javascripts, but don't have the time to
learn more code...

I'd like to hear your opinions about the appropriate way to deal with
non-critical errors that can occur in user-defined functions. For
example, an application chooses to extend String.prototype with a
format() method similar to sprintf(). Several formats (%d, %f, etc) are

I'm trying to "detect" a keydown event in a DIV.
The idea have a keydown listener attached to document and forward the
event to the div. (I've searched the web, but it was impossible to
handle the noise on this topic.)

Hi, since sometime I'm stuck in a problem where I want to check or
uncheck all the checkboxes. If I'm choosing name for the checkbox
array as 'chkbx_ary' then I'm able to check/uncheck all the checkboxes
(code pasted below). But if name of the checkbox array is

I am trying to print some HTML using JQUERY. I am posting the code. I
don't
see the alert. It seems as though the function is not registered when
the

comp.lang.javascript FAQ - Quick Answers- 10, Updated October 13, 2008
1 Meta-FAQ meta-questions
You are reading the _comp.lang.javascript_ meta-FAQ,
version 10. It is available on the web at