Scripting Techniques

Dropdown and popup menus are essential in web applications. A common way of implementing popup menus is by the use of style sheet techniques hiding and showing them through scripts.

Most scripting sites provide complex and long pluggins for making runtime popup menus. I found out that even in an intranet web application these scripts take too long to load. And it is more efficient to make a selection list via tables not created at runtime and utilizing only simple and short scripts.

In this area learn some dynamic HTML and create popup menus.

Showing and Hiding Objects
Creating Better Selection Lists
Interactive Menus
Sample Popup Menus

This area lists down event handlers that were commonly used in a Big Marvin web applications. These handlers make web pages interactive. Improve you page by using these event handlers.

The onMouseOver & onMouseOut Event
The onChange & onSelect Event

This area lists down event handlers that were commonly used in a Big Marvin web applications. These handlers make web pages interactive. Improve you page by using these event handlers.

Cleaning SQL statements
Cleaning Inputted Numeric Values

The auto refresh property in the meta tag is a great way of implementing a client pull. You can an information that can automatically update itself by setting it to refresh in a given amount of time. There is a draw back in using auto refresh, however. It may be refreshing a page that is already up to date or has no new information. This means that a browser takes useless time and bandwidth by accessing a whole page over and over again.

This area provides a work around for that sort of situation.

Efficient Reloads Active Server Pages
Efficient Reloads Withou Using ASP