These scripts all deal with JavaScript Messages. Some will tell you simply the date or time, and others will even tell you a random quote! They range in difficulty from less than 10 lines to more than 500 lines.
Title:Add Commas Contributor: Martin Webb Contributor URL:http://www.irt.org Details: 1.49 KB * Uploaded November 18 1999 Description: Modifies a number by adding commas after every third digit. For example, 123456789 is converted to 123,456,789. The script example shows this script as used on numbers of various sizes. And, it demonstrates a clever use of the modulus operator.
Title:Alert Details: 0.78 KB * Uploaded August 4 1997 Description: If you're just looking for a quick way to tell your visitor something, use this JavaScript alert! When they put their cursor on the link, they get the message in the form of a JavaScript alert!
Title:Alert & Confirm Details: 1.03 KB * Uploaded August 4 1997 Description: Here is a JavaScript confirm message that has variable responses. Basically, the response they get depends on what the user enters.
Title:Auto Popup Window Contributor:Rick Johnson (frj11@ev1.net) Contributor URL:http://rickjohnson.tripod.com Details: 1.77 KB * Uploaded January 30 2001 Description: Automatically opens a small popup window and closes it after a specified time. Great for displaying important messages without forcing users to close multiple windows!
Title:Banner Ads Details: 1.44 KB * Uploaded July 24 1998 Description: Need to rotate banner ads on your site? How about doing it in JavaScript! This simple little JavaScript will print out a random banner ad each time your page is viewed. Awesome!
Title:Check Sorter Contributor:Tom Folkes (tfolkes@cpcug.org) Details: 5.26 KB * Uploaded May 3 1999 Description: JavaScript can sort data based on any field of information. In this example, a checkbook register can be sorted by date, check number, check amount, or paid to person. We're one step closer to online banking... ;-)
Title:Confirm Entry Details: 0.57 KB * Uploaded March 2 1998 Description: This JavaScript asked you if you would like to continue. If you say "OK", it loads the page. If you click "CANCEL" (kinda like no) then it takes you back where you came from. Very neat! Really short!
Title:Daily Tip Contributor:Mike W. (mikew@dvol.com) Contributor URL:http://www.dvol.com/~users/mikew Details: 1.46 KB * Uploaded June 23 2000 Description: Displays a Tip of the Day on your page. Some examples include tips on your site, quotes, computer tips, etc. Just update the tips on a monthly basis.
Title:Dancing Links Details: 0.98 KB * Uploaded August 18 1998 Description: (Internet Explorer Only!) This little script will continuously change the highlighted link colors (visited and unvisited links) in Internet Explorer. Very neat! Netscape - why doesn't your browser support this? :-)
Title:Date Message Details: 2.13 KB * Uploaded December 21 1999 Description: Displays your message on the appropriate day you indicate. For example, you can have it print messages on holidays, birthdays, or other dates that are important to you and your site's visitors! Cool!
Title:Default Status Message Details: 0.27 KB * Uploaded March 12 1999 Description: Here's a neat way to put a message in the status bar on your page. It will stay there as the default message! Neat!
Title:Define It Details: 0.31 KB * Uploaded April 13 1999 Description: Look how easy it is to offer your visitors a definition to unfamiliar terms on your site. It takes just one line of code!
Title:Description Layer Contributor:Randy Bennett (rbennett@thezone.net) Contributor URL:http://home.thezone.net/~rbennett/utility/javahead.htm Details: 2.93 KB * Uploaded July 2 1999 Description: (4.0+ browsers) Offer your visitors a quick description or more information about a link before they visit it. When they put their cursor over a link a layer will appear describing the link. Your visitors will appreciate the extra effort, and it looks great too!
Title:Editable Menu Contributor:Cyanide_7 (leo7278@hotmail.com) Contributor URL:http://www7.ewebcity.com/cyanide7 Details: 2.12 KB * Uploaded March 16 2000 Description: Allows you to modify the text value of a SELECT menu option. Upon selecting the option, if it is set as editable, a cursor will appear. To edit the option, simply type, and press enter when finished (To bring back the old value, just hit enter.) You can also define any option as "read-only". Despite some known bugs, it is an amazing script.
Title:Elastic Bullets Contributor:Philip Winston (pwinston@yahoo.com) Contributor URL:http://members.xoom.com/ebullets Details: 6.05 KB * Uploaded February 11 2000 Description: Moves a series of images around the screen as if they were connected to the mouse cursor on a piece of elastic. In the demo, a series of small circular bullet icons are used. You could easily use any small images you want. You have to see it to believe it, wow!
Title:Favorite Banner Contributor:Rich Galichon (rich@galichon.net) Contributor URL:http://www.galichon.net Details: 3.48 KB * Uploaded December 6 2000 Description: Display banners while controlling how often they appear. Great for displaying a preferred banner over others!
Title:Find In Page Contributor:Mike Hall (MHall75819@aol.com) Contributor URL:http://members.aol.com/MHall75819 Details: 1.54 KB * Uploaded July 9 1999 Description: Allow your visitors to perform the same find in page search that Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers can perform on a page. They just enter a search term and hit enter. If the term is found on the page it is highlighted. Great!
Title:Footer Text Details: 0.90 KB * Uploaded June 9 1999 Description: (Version 4.0+ browsers) If adding and updating links at the bottom of each HTML page of your site is driving you crazy, here's the solution. JavaScript can read from an external file and include that code on the bottom of each page. The external file that it reads (with a .js extension) could contain the JavaScript code to print your footer text! Then, when the links change, just update the .js file, and all the other pages are updated, instantly! Great! (Note: Some servers do not support external .js files. Contact your system administrator to ensure you can run it on your site.)
Title:Glow Text Contributor:CodeLifter.com (support@codelifter.com) Contributor URL:http://www.codelifter.com Details: 1.88 KB * Uploaded February 1 2001 Description: (Internet Explorer 5.5) Present text with an amazing glowing border. Automatically changes color, height, and width of message at a specified rate. Note: Text appears normal in all other browsers.
Title:Headliner Contributor:Jan Pijnacker (Jan_P@dds.nl) Details: 5.69 KB * Uploaded February 22 1998 Description: When you need to present information on your site, you should consider this script. Appropriately named the Headliner, it presents a number of messages to your visitors in many different formats including a simple scroll, typewriter, expand, and just static text. Each message when clicked can take the visitor to a different URL! This script is really great.... Just check it out!
Title:Help Popups Contributor: S. Lee Contributor URL:http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/4000/javascript.html Details: 5.71 KB * Uploaded May 27 1999 Description: Microsoft Windows help boxes are second-nature to most of us by now. How about having a similar popup help box on your web site!? When visitors put their cursor on an item you have defined as having a help popup, it will load very quickly because JavaScript is actually creating the entire HTML page for the popup! There are tons of customizations you can play with the tailor the appearance of the popups to your site. You have to see this script, it's great!
Title:Hover Colors Contributor:Alan Branch (webman58@aol.com) Contributor URL:http://www.technom.com Details: 1.26 KB * Uploaded April 3 2000 Description: (Internet Explorer Only) Make the links on your site more exciting by changing the link text and background color when the link is being touched. Each link on your page can have a unique link and background color. Cool!
Title:Image Description Details: 1.55 KB * Uploaded November 8 1999 Description: Offer your visitors a short description when they put their cursor on an image link. Give more information about what is offered at a site, if it is free or not, or anything else you think is important for them to know. Neat!
Title:Info Stories Details: 2.82 KB * Uploaded May 29 1998 Description: Users can click on a headline and read a short description of the page, feature, or story. They can click the button to instantly be sent there! Great way to help your visitors get around your site! (Don't forget to learn from the coding!)
Title:Information Box Details: 2.92 KB * Uploaded August 4 1997 Description: Put this useful little script on your page to display lots of information to your visitors quickly and effectively. Check it out and see what I mean!
Title:Jitter Text Contributor:Michael Tartaglia (stonedstan@hotmail.com) Contributor URL:http://travel.to/html-hell Details: 1.58 KB * Uploaded June 7 1999 Description: (Version 4.0+ Browsers) The blink tag was good at getting your visitors attention, but how quickly it got annoying.... The newest attention-getter is Jitter Text! Just enter the text you want to use, and in version 4.0+ browser it will 'jiggle' around the screen, like jello! And it is not annoying! Check it out!
Title:Link Message Details: 0.46 KB * Uploaded August 4 1997 Description: It's nice of you to show your visitors a little bit about a link before they follow it! When they put their cursor on a link, a description of the link appears on the status bar, rather than the URL! I can think of many times this would be very convenient....
Title:Menu Message Contributor:Stephanie M. Clarkson (thespian@sleepingcat.com) Contributor URL:http://www.sleepingcat.com Details: 1.54 KB * Uploaded April 2 1998 Description: This script does a great job in presenting lots of information to your visitors without filling up your whole page. Each listing in the Pulldown Menu shows a different message in the text box! Give it a try!
Title:Modify Array Details: 2.41 KB * Uploaded July 20 1999 Description: Demonstrates how to modify an array by adding elements to or remove elements from the array. Our example also includes validation to ensure that only valid elements are removed or that 'reasonable' element indexes are added. Clever!
Title:Moon Phases Contributor:James Thiele (mailto:jet@eskimo.com) Details: 1.83 KB * Uploaded August 25 1999 Description: Displays the moon's current phase and estimates the time of the next full moon, using a calculation of the moon's rotation and the date.
Title:Mouse Banner Contributor: Peter Gehrig Contributor URL:http://www.24fun.ch Details: 2.08 KB * Uploaded December 29 1999 Description: Drags a text message, such as your site's name, around the screen behind the mouse cursor. Useful as an attention-grabber on the main page of your site. Don't overuse this script, though! ;-)
Title:Mouse Trails Contributor:Marcin Wojtowicz (one_spook@hotmail.com) Details: 2.44 KB * Uploaded January 5 2000 Description: A trail of cursors follow your cursor around the screen as you move the mouse. The image used here is transparent so the effect is subtle, but you could use any transparent image you want. Works in Internet Explorer and Netscape.
Title:Name Alert Details: 1.00 KB * Uploaded August 4 1997 Description: JavaScript can personally great all the visitors to your web page! When they enter, they are asked their name, and then they are greeted! Ah.... The wonders of JavaScript.
Title:Name Write Details: 0.69 KB * Uploaded August 4 1997 Description: Instead of alerting the user with 'Welcome Name!' you can write it into your page. This is neat for users to suddenly be reading along and just stumble upon their own name!
Title:OverLIB Contributor:Erik Bosrup (erik@bosrup.com) Contributor URL:http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/ Details: 7.46 KB * Uploaded February 9 2000 Description: This JavaScript library allows you to display small popup information boxes to help visitors around your website. When their cursor is over a link, your message can be displayed in any of a number of box styles. And, since it is in a '.js' file, you can add the code to your site once and call it from every page of your site. Impressive!
Title:Phone Lookup Details: 1.54 KB * Uploaded October 5 1999 Description: Allows the user to enter their area code and phone number and have the modem dialup phone number for their area displayed. If their area code matches an area code as defined in the script, the appropriate dialup number is displayed. For all other area codes, an error message is displayed. Only supports one dialup number per area code, though.
Title:Photo Album Contributor:Jennifer Stuart (jenniferstuart@yahoo.com) Details: 7.22 KB * Uploaded August 14 2000 Description: Display your pictures in a JavaScript-powered photo album. The number of images, name of the album, and other details can be changed. On the individual page for each image, previous and next buttons allow the user to easily view the rest of the images. Great!
Title:Print Page Details: 0.58 KB * Uploaded July 13 1999 Description: Although JavaScript can't print a web page automatically, it can bring up the print prompt box just like the print button in the web browser does. The user can click "OK" to print the page. The script can be placed as a reminder to your visitors to print out important pages which contain their passwords, account info, order number, etc. The script can also be set to automatically remind them when the page loads.
Title:Print Page (Automatic) Details: 0.79 KB * Uploaded July 13 1999 Description: This automatic version of Print Page reminds them to print the page as soon as the page finishes loading. Useful when you want the visitor to print out their order page, or their account info page, or any other page with sensitive information.
Title:Quick Alert Contributor:Agent023 (agent023@abutech.com) Contributor URL:http://www.abutech.com Details: 0.57 KB * Uploaded January 28 1998 Description: Here is the simpliest and probably fastest JavaScript alert. As soon as the visitor's browser reads the JavaScript alert coding, the alert is displayed. This is even faster than the onLoad alert and even less coding!
Title:Quote of the Day Contributor: George Chuang Details: 5.33 KB * Uploaded July 29 1999 Description: A different quote is displayed each day of the month as the quote of the day. A breeze to customize!
Title:Rainbow Text Contributor:Quak Zhixuan (zhixuan@email.com) Contributor URL:http://www.chs.edu.sg/~991b20 Details: 1.69 KB * Uploaded November 4 1999 Description: Displays your text in a multitude of rainbow colors. Definitely a visually appealing effect. And, it's a breeze to modify.
Title:Random Computer Puns Details: 2.36 KB * Uploaded June 30 1997 Description: If you are a computer junkie, like me, then you probably will get a kick out of these random computer quotes all written by JavaScript.
Title:Random Jokes Contributor:Randy Hall (randy.hall@i.am) Contributor URL:http://i.am/randy.hall Details: 3.17 KB * Uploaded April 14 2000 Description: Ask your visitors a random joke or question from an array of questions. When they put their cursor over the question, a layer or alert message will appear with the answer. Cool!
Title:Random Life Quotes Details: 3.69 KB * Uploaded August 4 1997 Description: If you want a quote to live by, check out this JavaScript life quotes generator.
Title:Random Murphy's Laws Details: 2.46 KB * Uploaded August 4 1997 Description: I know you've heard of those witty little Murphy's Laws... Well, now you can have them on your web page! JavaScript can pick one and display it randomly each time your page is loaded!
Title:Random Number Contributor: Ronnie T. Moore, Editor Contributor URL:JavaScript Source Code 2002 Details: 0.94 KB * Uploaded March 22 2000 Description: Pass a range of numbers to this JavaScript function and it will return a random number within that range. For example, passing the range of [1, 158] would return a number such as 37, 141, 18, etc. Awesome!
Title:Random Quips Details: 5.44 KB * Uploaded August 4 1997 Description: Of all the random message JavaScripts here at TJS, I probably like this one the most. It is hilarious! The JavaScript will randomly pick and write a quote to your web page. They're all funny! You'll love 'em!
Title:Random Sentences Details: 20.10 KB * Uploaded August 4 1997 Description: Use JavaScript to write a random sentence to your web page. Unlike the other random scripts that pick one of 60, this script NEVER uses the same sentence twice! It picks a new subject, verb, and object combination for each page load.
Title:Rotating Pulldown Menu Contributor:Dion (yobo42@hotmail.com) Contributor URL:http://www.iinet.net.au/~biab/ Details: 1.05 KB * Uploaded October 6 1999 Description: Rotates site messages in a pulldown menu every few seconds. A good way to conserve screen space and even allows the user to simply click the pulldown menu to view all the messages at once. Cool!
Title:Script Debugger Details: 0.92 KB * Uploaded June 18 1999 Description: Having trouble adding a JavaScript to your site? Just can't get things working? Add this short script to your site, and it will report to you JavaScript errors as they happen in a box on the screen. The idea is that you will see what the error is, and hopefully give you some ideas on how to fix it. I actually use this script when I debug scripts!
Title:Show Link Info Details: 0.97 KB * Uploaded September 28 1999 Description: Let your visitor know exactly where a link will send them. This short script displays the domain the link points to as well as the filename of the page in the status bar at the bottom bar of the browser window.
Title:Slideshow Details: 1.68 KB * Uploaded June 12 1998 Description: Here is our absolute favorite script, the slideshow. I'm sure it caught your attention! You can customize it (change the messages, destination page, background color, etc.) to suit your needs! Great script to use as the introduction to your site! And, it works inside frames!
Title:Split String Details: 0.64 KB * Uploaded June 24 1999 Description: The substring() function allows you to pull out any combination of characters from a string. In this example, an unformated date string such as 19990422 (which represents April 22, 1999) can be split up into 1999, 04, and 22. Each of these are separate variables that you can deal with independently in your scripts! Neat!
Title:Teletype Scroller Contributor:John O'Brien (obrien@lis.net.au) Contributor URL:http://www.lis.net.au/~obrien Details: 2.27 KB * Uploaded December 1 2000 Description: Now you can type text across the screen and then scroll it off the page while it fades. Add as many messages as you need. Awesome!
Title:Text Highlighter Contributor: K. Rama Moorthy Contributor URL: http://www.suyambhu.bizhosting.com Details: 1.89 KB * Uploaded December 13 1999 Description: Alternates the font color of each character in a line of text. Useful to catch the attention of your web site visitors. You may also customize the color and font of the text.
Title:Text Ripple Contributor: Ronnie T. Moore, Editor Details: 1.32 KB * Uploaded September 5 2000 Description: The ripple is created by converting each sequential letter from lower case to upper case. The ripple speed can be also be changed.
Title:Time Message Details: 1.75 KB * Uploaded August 4 1997 Description: This JavaScript is pretty interesting. It will dynamically (means it is different every time) write to the screen a message that depends on the time on the visitor's clock when they load the page. I'm almost positive you've seen it before. Now, get it on your page!
Title:Word Lookup Contributor:Nick Simonov (nicks@iln.net) Contributor URL:http://www.iln.net Details: 1.16 KB * Uploaded April 26 2000 Description: Just double-click any word in the body of your web page and a new window will open with its definition from an online dictionary. Try it out! (Special thanks to iln.net for sharing their dictionary!)
Title:Zen Phrases Contributor:bsimmons@seanet.com Contributor URL:http://www.wrldpwr.com Details: 5.32 KB * Uploaded March 5 1998 Description: Take advice from the all powerful force of Zen. Zen will give you three phrases each time you click the button - the first phrase changes every hour, the second phrase changes every minute, and the last phrase changes every second. Try it out!
