I wrote a tutorial a little while back on writing a script that forces new windows on PDF and external links without the addition of anything extra into the xHTML. Turns out, to no surprise, that IE 6 does something strange with the image that indicates the new window. Here’s what it does and how I fixed my script…
Create a vertical navigation that will expand and collapse to show and hide sub-navigation using only unordered lists and as few class/id names as possible…
Launch new windows for PDFs and External Websites without having to add anything into my (x)HTML – a pure behavior that should be separated from my core structure. There have been many attempts at tutorials on this, but I’ve never been happy.
Ages ago I attempted to learn JavaScript to no avail. I never really found any great use for it – and what it was being used for was pretty trivial and lame. That was until I read Jeremy Keith’s book…
Do you write document.getElementById or document.getElementsByTagName too many times in your javascript to count? How about shortening them into their own easy to use functions?…