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At the end of the page add this javascript: function enterPressed(evn) { if (window.event && window.event.keyCode == 13) { alert("IE: Enter is pressed"); } else if (evn && evn.keyCode == 13) { alert("Netscape: Enter is pressed"); } } document.onkeypress = enterPressed; UPDATE Here is modified cross browser version of the code above: function doWhenEnterPressed(evn) { var enterWasPressed = false; if (window.event && window.event.keyCode == 13) { // IE enterWasPressed = true; } else if (evn && (evn.keyCode == 13 || evn.which == 13 )) { // FF enterWasPressed = true; } if (enterWasPressed) { alert('Enter pressed'); // your action code } } document.onkeydown = function(evn) { doWhenEnterPressed(evn); }

Cross browser function to get element(s) by "name" attribute. /** getElementsByTagAndName: to avoid missing getElementsByName in IE */ function getElementsByTagAndName(tag, name) {     var elem = document.getElementsByTagName(tag);     var arr = new Array();     for(i = 0, iarr = 0; i         att = elem[i].getAttribute("name");         if(att == name) {             arr[iarr] = elem[i];             iarr++;         }     }     return arr; }

Just keep in mind how you can use and control height of different DOM elements. I consider: offsetTop, offsetLeft windowHeight scrollTop scrollHeight clientHeight offsetHeight Take a look at simple self-explanatory demo and more comprehensive event and height demo .

This is the illustration of sortable lists by drag and drop in combination with expandable/collapsible animated accordion. Animation, some event handling and some object access are based on Yahoo! UI Library . Accordion menu implementation idea was taken from here . Core drag and drop function is dom-drag.js . About it you can read here . It's been used as is. I also used some ideas from here . This page uses dom-drag.js as well. Here is my demo of the result I've got. It features: Grip for drag-and-drop. Save/retrieve state (expanded or collapsed) and order of bars in cookies. MS Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox similar behavior. Customizable: allowMultipleExpand, expandAllOnload. Pure javascript implementation. If I'm not get lazy I'll publish the documentation and API. Regards, Eugene

This code extracts text (nodeValue) of first text node presented in DOM tree. It works with complex structure of DOM trees, but somehow it appeared to be a quite complicated code. Can anyone improve it? : /** Return text node if exists in hierarchy */ function findChildTextNode(startNode) {    if (startNode.nodeType == 3) return startNode;     var childList = startNode.childNodes;     for (var i=0; i < childList.length; i++) {         return findChildTextNode(childList[i]);     }    return null; } /** Returns text node recursively */ function findTextNode(inerestNode) {     var foundTextNode = null;     var tags = inerestNode.getElementsByTagName("*");     for (var i = 0; i < tags.length; i++) {         foundTextNode = findChildTextNode(tags[i]);  ...

Task: change the value of parameter 'tid' in given querystring. Original querystring: var linkParam = 'tid=8&id=11008&location=news'; New 'tid' parameter value: var tagId = 12; You can do it using 'replace' function. Final code to replace: var tagIdReg = /[tid=](\d+)[&]/i; document.write(linkParam.replace(tagIdReg, '='+tagId+'&')); But if you need just extract 'tid' value use 'exec': var tagIdReg = /[tid=](\d+)[&]/i; var regResult = tagIdReg.exec(linkParam); document.write(regResult[1]);

While ago I created this extremely useful :), yes, that's right, for probably every web developer, the Windows desktop backgroud. It should fit most of the today's desktop screens resolutions. Dimensions of background is: 1680x1200 . For more compatibility the format of the file is windows bitmap. Download it, unzip and copy to your C:\windows folder. It will become available on "Desktop" tab of "Display Properties" window. It looks like this (but bigger, yeah):

To remove all children nodes (from childNodes list) use: while(listNode.firstChild) { // delete all nodes       listNode.removeChild(listNode.firstChild); } Of course innerHTML will work too: listNode.innerHTML = '';

Task definition: You have a DOM tree (startNode which can be the whole document), and need to find first specific tag in this tree . Here is the recursion function to do this: function findNodeByTag(startNode, tagName) {     if (startNode.nodeName.toLowerCase() == tagName.toLowerCase()) return startNode;     var childList = startNode.childNodes;     for (var i=0; i<childList.length; i++) {         return findNodeByTag(childList[i], tagName);     }     return null; } And you call it: findNodeByTag(myDOMobj, "img");

Here are examples taken from some of my code just to memorize common use node functions. I hope they are self-explanatory. // Clone DOM node var movingUrl = urlLineSPAN.cloneNode(true); // Get Parent node var urlList = urlLineSPAN.parentNode; // Delete DOM Node urlList.removeChild(urlLineSPAN); // Add DOM node urlAreaObj.appendChild(newNode); // or urlAreaObj.insertBefore(newNode, existingNode);

To swap DOM nodes you can use this example: var oldNodeAtPosition = document.getElementById(existingNode); var newNodeAtPosition = document.getElementById(retrievedNode); // swap DOM nodes // API: replaceChild(child1,child2) -- replace node child2 by node child1 oldNodeAtPosition.parentNode.replaceChild(newNodeAtPosition.cloneNode(true), oldNodeAtPosition); newNodeAtPosition.parentNode.replaceChild(oldNodeAtPosition.cloneNode(true), newNodeAtPosition);

I had a task to implement vertical navigation by the long list of items which does not fit the browser window. It has to be hidden if list of items shorter than height of the window. Note also I has to use frames. Okey, let's start. First, I disabled standard scrollbars within the window: <style> html,body { overflow: hidden; } body { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; } </style> Then I disabled scrollbars in DIV area which should be navigated: #taglist{ width:100%; overflow:hidden; } Then I created DIV area with up/down buttons bound to right lower corner of the window. I wrote in CSS file: .sbnav { position: absolute; bottom: 5px; right: 5px; text-align:right; background-color: #fbffba; padding:3px; } .sbnav-up { margin-bottom: 6px; } .sbnav-down { margin-top: 6px; } and in HTML (the simpliest piece): <div id="taglist"></div> Couple more tricks in this work: 1. Shift displayed area. For this purpose I have to control scrollTop DOM property. I w...

Sure you can use this function with any DOM object. Not only a form field. /* event dispatcher */ function installAC(frm, fld) { a = document.forms[frm].elements[fld]; if (a.addEventListener) {a.addEventListener("keyup", PerformActions, false)} // firefox else if (a.attachEvent) {a.attachEvent("onpropertychange", PerformActions)} // ie } /* actions to do */ function PerformActions(h) { // your code here }

offsetHeight property of DOM element will let you get its height. Following javascript function will return the height of the window: /* Get window height. To get DOM element height use offsetHeight. */ function getWindowHeight() { var windowHeight = 0; if (typeof(window.innerHeight) == 'number') { windowHeight = window.innerHeight; } else { if (document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientHeight) { windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight; } else { if (document.body && document.body.clientHeight) { windowHeight = document.body.clientHeight; } } } return windowHeight; }