If you're looking for some simple examples in Javascript (alert window, checking the value in a field, one select box that depends on another, checking window width and browser type), etc, I've just posted some short pieces of code that I wrote yesterday to our client side technology area. So often I find that good examples of Javascript are deeply tied up within beautifully-displaying HTML that's difficult to read if you're looking at it to ask "how do they do that"?

The example that generates a pulldown menu based on what you've selected in another pulldown menu (exactly the sort of thing you'll want to do with - for example - make and model or country and town selections) also includes a PHP form with the Javascript to show how they work together, and use of data held in an SQL database too. Run the example at our demo area

"But I thought you didn't run Javascript courses, Graham". Correct - I don't have the notes and I don't have the in-depth knowledge to feel confident in running a whole course over several days on the subject. BUT ... it's an important adjunct in HTML, in contract work, in our own web site, and also as it relates to web sites that are server side using PHP, Perl, Python or Tcl. So I can and will cover elements of Javascript as needed within other courses.

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Updated, 6th September 2009. Here are direct links to the examples that I am talking about ...

dynamic.html	Dynamic Image (Using Javascript)
eight.php	Disabling a form input until another element has been completed
fifth.html	Providing different links depending on which browser
first.html	Simple Javascript variables, and an alert box
fourth.html	reporting platform information via Javascript
isflash.html	Sensing whether Flash is available on a browser
jskl.html	Javascript event handling on a form (textarea)
nine.php	Javascript, PHP and MySQL used together - training example
second.html	Conditional in Javascript - wording based on browser
seven.php	Changing one Select menu based on another selection
six.php	Validating user entries at the browser
smonth.php	Disabling a form input until another element has been completed
terry2.html	Roll over an image to change another image
third.html	Checking plugin availability

(written 2005-08-13, updated 2009-09-06)

 W602 - Web and Intranet - Client Side Technologies
  [522] Javascript events - a good example - (2005-12-09)
  [1322] Flash - is it available to your web page? - (2007-08-26)
  [1681] Adding a button to a web page to print the page - (2008-06-18)
  [1749] Using server side and client side programming together - (2008-08-11)
  [1812] Starting Ajax - easy example of browser calling up server data - (2008-09-27)
  [1813] Ajax - going Asyncronous and what it means - (2008-09-28)
  [1814] Javascript/HTML example, dynamic server monitor - (2008-09-28)
  [2390] Dynamic / changing images on your web page - (2009-09-01)
  [2628] An example of an injection attack using Javascript - (2010-02-08)
  [3128] How does your browser find out about itself? - (2011-01-11)
  [4277] Sending a message to the server and changing text on a page when a button is pressed - (2014-05-23)
  [4310] Problem ... I want to print a series of numbered forms - (2014-10-05)

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