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Creating and appending DOM nodesto a form can be tricky. Internet Explorer needs special care when youcreate a DOM node and then set the name property. This handy JavaScriptgets around these cross browser issues efficiently, and without browserdetection...

Loveit or hate it, alternating background colors is a common design requestfor web designers. If you maintain a site of static HTML files, this"zebra striping" effect can become time consuming and tedious. Even ifyou use a content management system or...

Dealing with numbers, strings and JavaScript can be frustrating for a beginner. This is a down-and-dirty explanation of converting strings to numbers, detecting if a string is a number, and handy functions for manipulating numbers.
How many times have you gotten a number from a FORM field on your web page, tried to add it to a number only to get the wrong value back!? One of the most basic tasks of any program is converting between different data types. JavaScript is pretty flexible...

Use standard DOM methods and properties to interact with HTML forms.
This is a basic tutorial on using JavaScript to interact with forms on a Web page. It covers two methods. The first method is very common, but was first implemented in old browsers. The second method uses standard Document Object Model methods and properties...