Knowledge Base Contributions

Below is a list of the knowledge base entries that Martin Honnen has contributed to:

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• How do I delete a child node of an XML object?
  How to delete an attribute of an XML object?
  How to delete an item in an XMLList object?
  

• How can I check whether a block element like a div with overflow as auto or scroll has been scrolled?
  How can I check whether a block element like a div with overflow as auto or scroll has been scrolled?
  

• Which browsers and SVG viewers support scripting SVG documents with JavaScript?
  Which browsers and SVG viewers support scripting SVG documents with JavaScript?
  

• How do I insert a child element into the existing child elements of an XML object representing an element?
  How do I insert a child element into the existing child elements of an XML object representing an element?
  

• How do I add a child element to an XML object representing an element?
  How do I add a child element to an XML object representing an element?
  

• Which program id (e.g. Microsoft.XMLHTTP, Msxml2.XMLHTTP) do I need to use with which version of IE?
  Which program id (e.g. Microsoft.XMLDOM, Msxml2.DOMDocument) do I need to use with which version of IE?
  

• How do I use the method valueOf?
  How do I use the method valueOf?
  

• How do I use the method toXMLString?
  How do I use the method toXMLString?
  

• How do I use the method toString?
  How do I use the method toString?
  

• How do I use the method text?
  How do I use the method text?
  

• How do I use the method propertyIsEnumerable?
  How do I use the method propertyIsEnumerable?
  

• How do I use the method processingInstructions?
  How do I use the method processingInstructions?
  

• How do I use the method parent?
  How do I use the method parent?
  

• How do I use the method normalize?
  How do I use the method normalize?
  

• How do I use the method length?
  How do I use the method length?
  

• How do I use the method hasSimpleContent?
  How do I use the method hasSimpleContent?
  

• How do I use the method hasComplexContent?
  How do I use the method hasComplexContent?
  

• How I use the method hasOwnProperty?
  How I use the method hasOwnProperty?
  

• How do I use the method elements?
  How do I use the method elements?
  

• How do I use the method descendants?
  How do I use the method descendants?
  

• How do I use the method copy?
  How do I use the method copy?
  

• How do I use the method contains?
  How do I use the method contains?
  

• How do I use the method comments?
  How do I use the method comments?
  

• How do I use the method children?
  How do I use the method children?
  

• How do I use the method child?
  How do I use the method child?
  

• How do I use the method attributes?
  How do I use the method attributes?
  

• How do I use the method attribute?
  How do I use the method attribute?
  

• How do I use the method valueOf?
  How do I use the method valueOf?
  

• How do I use the method toXMLString?
  How do I use the method toXMLString?
  

• How do I use the method toString?
  How do I use the method toString?
  

• How do I use the method text?
  How do I use the method text?
  

• How do I use the method setNamespace?
  How do I use the method setNamespace?
  

• How do I use the method setName?
  How do I use the method setName?
  

• How do I use the method setLocalName?
  How do I use the method setLocalName?
  

• How do I use the method setChildren?
  How do I use the method setChildren?
  

• How do I use the method replace?
  Hiow do I use the method replace?
  

• How do I use the method propertyIsEnumerable?
  How do I use the method propertyIsEnumerable?
  

• How do I use the method prependChild?
  How do I use the method prependChild?
  

• How do I use the method processingInstructions?
  How do I use the method processingInstructions?
  

• How do I use the method parent?
  How do I use the method parent?
  

• How do I use the method normalize?
  How do I use the method normalize?
  

• How do I use the method nodeKind?
  How do I use the method nodeKind?
  

• How do I use the method namespaceDeclarations?
  How do I use the method namespaceDeclarations?
  

• How do I use the method namespace?
  How do I use the method namespace?
  

• How do I use the method name?
  How do I use the method name?
  

• How do I use the method localName?
  How do I use the method localName?
  

• How do I use the method length?
  How do I use the method length?
  

• How do I use the method insertChildBefore?
  How do I use the method insertChildBefore?
  

• How do I use the method insertChildAfter?
  How do I use the method insertChildAfter?
  

• How do I use the method hasSimpleContent?
  How do I use the method hasSimpleContent?
  

• How do I use the method hasComplexContent?
  How do I use the method hasComplexContent?
  

• How do I use the method hasOwnProperty?
  How do I use the method hasOwnProperty?
  

• How do I use the method elements?
  How do I use the method elements?
  

• How do I use the method descendants?
  How do I use the method descendants?
  

• How do I use the method copy?
  How do I use the method copy?
  

• How do I use the method contains?
  How do I use the method contains?
  

• How do I use the method comments()?
  How do I use the method comments()?
  

• How do I use the method children()?
  How do I use the method children()?
  

• How do I use the method childIndex?
  How do I use the method childIndex?
  

• How do I use the method child?
  How do I use the method child?
  

• How do I use the method attributes?
  How do I use the method attributes?
  

• How do I use the method attribute?
  How do I use the method attribute?
  

• How do I use the method appendChild?
  How do I use the method appendChild?
  

• How do I use the method addNamespace?
  How do I use the method inScopeNamespaces?
  How do I use the method addNamespace?
  How do I use the method inScopeNamespaces?
  How do I use the method removeNamespace?
  How do I use the method removeNamespace?
  

• Which built-in methods are defined for XMLList objects?
  Which built-in methods are defined for XMLList objects?
  Which built-in methods are defined for XMLList objects?
  Which built-in methods are defined for XMLList objects?
  

• Which built-in methods are defined for XML objects?
  Which built-in methods are defined for XML objects?
  Which built-in methods are defined for XML objects?
  Which built-in methods are defined for XML objects?
  

• Which global settings are there to influence parsing and serialization?
  Which global settings are there to influence parsing and serialization?
  

• How can I apply a condition to filter out certain elements in a child node or descendant accessor?
  How can I apply a condition to filter out certain elements in a child node or descendant accessor?
  

• How can I access elements or attributes that are in a namespace?
  How can I access elements or attributes that are in a namespace?
  

• How can I access the descendant elements of an XML object representing an element?
  How can I access the descendant elements of an XML object representing an element?
  How can I access the descendant nodes of an XML object representing an element?
  

• How does E4X deal with XML with namespaces?
  How does E4X deal with XML with namespaces?
  

• How can I access the attributes of an XML object representing an element?
  How can I access the attributes of an XML object representing an element?
  

• How can I access the child nodes of an XML object representing an element?
  How can I access the child element nodes of an XML object representing an element?
  How can I access the child element nodes of an XML object representing an element?
  

• Are XMLList objects live collections like DOM node lists are?
  Are XMLList objects live collections like DOM node lists are?
  Are E4X XMLList objects live collections like DOM node lists are?
  

• How does an XMLList literal respectively an XMLList initializer look?
  How does an XMLList literal respectively an XMLList initializer look?
  

• How does an XML literal respectively an XML initializer look?
  How does an XML literal respectively an XML initializer look?
  

• How can I create an attribute in a certain namespace with the DOM?
  How can I create an xml:lang attribute with the DOM?
  

• How can I create an XML element in a certain namespace with the DOM?
  

• How can I use E4X in Mozilla and Mozilla based browsers?
  How can I use E4X in Mozilla and Mozilla based browsers?
  How can I use E4X in Mozilla and Mozilla based browsers?
  

• What is E4X (ECMAScript for XML)?
  What is E4X (ECMAScript for XML)?
  What is E4X (ECMAScript for XML)?
  

• How can I serialize an XML DOM document to a string of markup?
  How can I serialize an XML DOM node to a string of markup?
  How can I serialize an SVG DOM node to a string?
  How can I serialize an SVG DOM node to a string?
  

• How do you match elements in the default namespace (e.g. xmlns="uri") in XPath 2.0?
  How do you match elements in the default namespace (e.g. xmlns="uri") in XPath 2.0 within XSLT 2.0?
  How do you match elements in the default namespace (e.g. xmlns="uri") in XPath 2.0 within XQuery 1.0
  

• How do you match elements in the default namespace (e.g. xmlns="uri") in XPath 1.0?
  How do you match elements in the default namespace (e.g. xmlns="uri") in XPath 1.0 with .NET?
  How do you match elements in the default namespace (e.g. xmlns="uri") in XPath 1.0 with J(ava)Script?
  How do you match elements in the default namespace (e.g. xmlns="uri") in XPath 1.0 with PHP 5?
  How do you match elements in the default namespace (e.g. xmlns="uri") in XPath 1.0 with Java 1.5?
  

• How can I find the word in the text on the page related to an event (e.g. word clicked on or hovered)?
  How can I find the word in the text on the page related to an event (e.g. word clicked on or hovered)?
  

• How can I check whether a link has been visited?
  

• How can I get the HTML markup of the current text selection?
  How can I get the HTML markup of the current text selection?
  

• How do I select a line in a textarea with Mozilla?
  

• How can I swap table columns?
  

• How can I loop through elements contained in a text selection in Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape 7?
  How can I loop through elements contained in a text selection in Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape 7?
  How can I loop through elements contained in a text selection in Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape 7?
  

• How can I store and restore a text selection made by the user?
  How can I store and restore a text selection made by the user?
  How can I store and restore a text selection made by the user?
  

• How can I ensure that an element containing an iframe is hidden when the mouse leaves the element?
  How can I ensure that an element containing an iframe is hidden when the mouse leaves the element?
  How can I ensure that an element containing an iframe is hidden when the mouse leaves the element?
  

• How can I expand acronyms or abbreviations when they are clicked?
  How can I expand acronyms or abbreviations when they are clicked?
  How can I expand acronyms or abbreviations when they are clicked?
  

• How do I place a validation message next to a text control?
  How do I place a validation message next to a text control?
  

• How can I replace the context menu with my own where links in the menu are context sensitive?
  How can I replace the context menu with my own where links in the menu are context sensitive?
  

• How to create a collapsible chapter/section list?
  How to create a collapsible chapter/section list?
  How can I add sub-sections to the collapsable menu? (ex.- Chapter 1, Section 1, Content 1
  For the collapsible chapters script how to I add the collapse and expand link in front of the chapte
  

• How do I swap to cells in a table?
  

• How can I compute event.offsetX/offsetY which IE provides with Mozilla?
  

• How do I move a layer where an element was clicked?
  How do I move a layer where an element was clicked?
  Example doesh't work in Opera 5
  

• How can I move a window around the screen?
  

• How do I code a stop watch?
  

• How can post XML data to the server?
  How can I receive XML data from the server?
  

• How can I change the background color of a table column onmouseover?
  

• How do I stream XML into JS on the fly without having an actual .xml file?
  How do I parse a string with XML markup into an XML DOM document?
  

• (How) can I print a document that is not currently loaded into a frame or window?
  (How) can I print a document that is not currently loaded into a frame or window?
  2nd answer can't use on a frame base application !
  

• How can I disable (and enable again) a submit button?
  

• How can I restrict the number of selections in a select multiple element?
  

• How can I find the event coordinates relative to the element the event is fired on?
  How can I find the event coordinates relative to the element the event is fired on?
  

• How can I move a layer on top of a table cell?
  How can I move a layer on top of a table cell?
  

• How can I find the element clicked on in a document?
  How can I find the element clicked on in a document?
  

• How do I script a vertically scrolling ticker for NN4, NN6, IE4+ and Opera?
  

• How do I scroll to an anchor in a dynamically written document in NN4 and NN6?
  

• How can I manipulate the selection and the caret in an input type="text" element in NN6 and IE?
  How can I manipulate the selection and the caret in an input type="text" element in NN6 and IE?
  How can I enter text at the caret in a <textarea> element with Mozilla 1.3+?
  

• How can I fade an img in onmouseover and out onmouseout?
  

• How can I disable links and buttons till the page is loaded?
  

• How can I count the occurences of a certain word in the body of the document?
  

• How can I copy the inline style of one element to another?
  

• How can I insert style sheets linked into a frameset document into every frame?
  

• How do I open a window at the position of an element in the page?
  

• How can I position a layer on top of a table row?
  

• How can I link in a style sheet dynamically into an xml document?
  

• How do I append a CSS rule set to the page?
  

• How can I set focus to the window when the user moves the mouse over it?
  

• How do I append some HTML to a loaded page?
  

• How can I let the background color of some table cells blink?
  How can I let the background color of some table cells blink?
  

• Is there a way to remove HTML elements from a file? What is the opposite of insertAdjacentHTML?
  

• How can I swap two nodes in the document?
  How can I swap two rows in a table?
  How can I swap two nodes in the document?
  

• How can I dynamically generate a list of anchors in the document and place it at the top of the document?
  How can I dynamically generate a list of anchors in the document and place it at the top of the document?
  

• How can I disable a button after the first click?
  

• How to determine with JavaScript if Java is enabled in a browser?
  

• How can I in an event handler like onclick get the coordinates relative to the element (for instance an img) clicked?
  How can I in an event handler like onclick get the coordinates relative to the element (for instance an img) clicked?
  

• How can I add a click method to links with NN6/Mozilla?
  How can I add a click method to all HTML elements with NN6/Mozilla?
  

• How can I compute the day of the year for a given Date?
  

• How can I rotate an element by 90, 180, 270 degree?
  

• How can I scroll a window from right to left?
  

• How can I move the selected OPTION of a SELECT up or down?
  

• How can I combine a SELECT element and an INPUT TYPE="text" field so that the user can input new OPTIONs for the SELECT?
  

• How can I implement scrollIntoView for NN6?
  

• How can I slide a positioned element along an a line?
  

• When the user selects an image file for upload, how can I upload the file dimensions too?
  

• Can you hide the borders of a SELECT, only showing the dropdown arrow?
  

• How can I scroll the window when the mouse cursor approaches the window borders?
  

• How can I apply a glow filter to my links (IE5+)?
  

• How do I open a couple of windows and allow navigating forth and back between them?
  

• Does NN6 have a property similar to IE4+'s document.activeElement?
  

• How can I cascade the loading of images, so that the second loads after the first, the third after the second and so on?
  

• How can I allow the user to select the page content and copy it to the clipboard?
  

• I have two text elements that I want to animate along the center of the page so that they meet in the page middle? How can I script that?
  

• I have my form elements organized in table rows. How can I reset the elements in a particular row?
  

• How can I change the content of a link?
  

• How can I show a navigational path, with a link for the host and each directory of the path?
  

• How can I allow the user to click anywhere in the document to make annotations?
  How can I allow the user to click anywhere in the document to make annotations?
  

• How can I show a "Page is loading" message till the complete page including images is loaded and only then show the page content?
  

• How can I find and manipulate the selected text in an INPUT TYPE="text"/TEXTAREA?
  How can I find and manipulate the text before and after a selection in an INPUT TYPE="text"/TEXTAREA?
  

• How can I measure the dimensions of a string written with a certain style?
  

• How can I select certain form elements for submission?
  

• How can I drag a layer up and down like a scrollbar?
  

• How can I read a file selected with the INPUT TYPE="file" element?
  

• How do you deselect the current selection?
  How do you deselect the current selection?
  How do you deselect the current selection?
  

• How can I increase the rows of a TEXTAREA element when the content overflows?
  

• How do I get scrollable cells?
  

• How can I zoom an IMG element with an associated MAP element?
  

• How do I open a window exactly the size of the image it is going to display?
  Under IE6: a script error produced by line 6 in the first instance, debug indicates ";" error.
  

• How can I hide a table cell/its content?
  

• How can I select an element when the user clicks it?
  How can I select an element when the user clicks it?
  

• How can I copy elements from one (i)frame to another?
  How can I copy elements from one (i)frame to another?
  

• How do you move the background?
  How do you move the background?
  

• How can I scroll an IFRAME up and/or down?
  

• How can I make a TABLE transparent again after setting the background color or image?
  How can I change the background color or the background image of a TABLE?
  How can I change the background image size of a table to the table size?
  

• How can I read the HTTP response headers of the page?
  

• How do I check the HTTP response status of a link's URL?
  How can I check the HTTP response status of all links in a document?
  

• How can I scroll a TEXTAREA?
  How can I add text in a TEXTAREA so that it is scrolled into view?
  

• How do you draw straight lines?
  

• How can I write text vertically?
  

• How can I script an updatable time line?
  

• How can I let a radio button be selected by a click on the textual description before or behind it?
  

• How can I provide a scrollable TABLE BODY while the HEADER and FOOTER is fixed?
  How can I provide a scrollable TABLE BODY while the HEADER and FOOTER is fixed?
  How can I provide a scrollable TABLE BODY while the HEADER and FOOTER is fixed for IE 5.5?
  How can I provide a scrollable TABLE BODY while the HEADER and FOOTER is fixed for IE 5.5?
  How can I provide a scrollable TABLE BODY while the HEADER and FOOTER is fixed for IE 5.5?
  How can document.write use to give STYLE to TBODY for scrollbar(like overflow :auto) on IE 5.5?
  How can document.write use to give STYLE to TBODY for scrollbar(like overflow :auto) on IE 5.5?
  How can document.write use to give STYLE to TBODY for scrollbar(like overflow :auto) on IE 5.5?
  

• I have an editable Element in IE5.5. How can I alter the context menu to allow selection and insertion of images?
  

• How do I hide/show a table column?
  

• How can I color a rectangle in an image?
  How can I color a rectangle in an image?
  

• How can I size a window to its content's size?
  

• How can I script an ad rotator?
  

• How can I synchronize the scrolling of two frames?
  

• How can I animate zooming in and out of an image?
  

• How can I check whether the Sun Java Plugin is installed and which version of the JKD/JRE is supports?
  

• How can I provide a mask for an INPUT field which is autocompleted while the user types?
  

• How can I periodically alter the color of a word or text?
  

• How can I fade images in and out?
  

• How can I find a layer with its ID?
  

• How do I open a new window on top (same position and size) of the opening window?
  

• How do I mark occurences of a word the user searches for in an HTML page?
  

• How can I ROT13 encode/decode a string?
  

• How do I implement drag and drop for positioned elements?
  How do I implement drag and drop for positioned elements?
  

• How can I slide in a frame like a curtain moving?
  How can I slide in frame_3 like a curtain moving when clicking in frame_1?
  

• Can I get onmouseover events for OPTION elements in a SELECT?
  Can I get onmouseover events for OPTION elements in a SELECT?
  

• I preload an animated non looping gif in NN4. When I swap it in only the last frame is shown. What can I do to prevent that?
  

• How do I script a progress indication of page loading (e.g. Loading ...)?
  I tried the progress indication of page loading with framesets in div content but I get a blank scre
  

• How can I parametrize the order-by attribute in an xsl stylesheet?
  

• How can I create an XML document object?
  

• How can I load an XML document to script it with DOM methods?
  

• How can I avoid scrollbars in a window even when the document is wider/higher than the window?
  How can I replace the scrollbar with a 'virtual' scrollbar?
  

• How can I let the enter key tab from form field to form field?
  How can I let the enter key tab from form field to form field?
  

• How can I mask the input in a text field?
  

• I need to copy the body of a html page into a DIV using an IFRAME as a buffer. How do I time that?
  

• How do I prevent dragging of page elements in IE4+?
  

• How can I find text in the page?
  How can I do window.find('str') with IE?
  

• Can I script an analog clock?
  

• How do you find out the character set of the document?
  

• Can I set the opacity/transparency of an element?
  

• How can I browse to the home page of the user?
  

• What is the maximum array size/length?
  

• How do I clone an Object?
  How do I clone an Array?
  How to clone the object if between it and its properties there is a relations like parent-child
  

• How can I move the selected OPTION up or down?
  It is not working in Firefox and in IE too... :( Object not support automation or object is read onl
  

• How do I change the style of a form field label when the field gets focus?
  How do I change the style of a form field label when the field gets focus?
  

• How do I change the bgColor and the fgColor of a table cell?
  

• How can I get the page to scroll to an anchor without invoking the onload?
  

• How do I show a description of an option in a select box, when the mouse is over the option?
  

• How to assign the content of external *.js file to a variable(IE)?
  

• How can I get all the attributes supported by an object?
  Can I know which attribute or event is supported by an element?
  Can I find out which events are supported in which element?
  

• How do I create a multi-dim array, (i.e. planets and their moons)
  

• Is is possible to manually set the button focus of a confirm("xxx") box (Yes,Cancel)?
  

• How can I change the background image of a frame with the onClick event on another frame?
  

• How can I add textareas to a page?
  How can I add textareas to a page?
  

• Can I read the file size of the current document?
  

• How do I disable Scrollbars in Javascript for a page?
  

• Can I check whether a window is moved?
  Is there a window.onmove handler?
  

• how can I get the loading time of a Image ?
  

• How to overcome key event unreliability for form fields inside tables with NN4?
  

• How can I keep one column of table to fixed width and another to remaining screensize
  

• Can I capture the Delete key?
  

• How can I move text in the status bar?
  

• How do I move a text in a text field?
  

• Is it possible to force the browser to download .txt (or any other) instead of viewing it?
  

• How can I do a file uploading from client browser to server?
  

• Can I submit a form to two different locations?
  

• How do i change the bgcolor of a table column (TD) when a onMouseOver event on text in it occurs?
  

• When loading a page with the back button which parts of script in the page are executed?
  

• How do I give the ability to print all the documents in my website in one shot?
  

• How can extract the number for the following value(155) from (AOpen ATX Full Tower (13 Drive Bays) -$155.00)
  

• How can I script a proxy configuration file?
  

• How do I disable Netscape Browser Back Button so that site navigation can be controlled by the application?
  

• How can I set focus to a specific link in NN4 to interrupt the normal tab order?
  

• How can I let the user select a file and copy it or attache to a database?
  

• Can I change the style class of an HTML element in NN4?
  

• How can I ensure that only capital letters are inserted into a textarea?
  

• Can I check the position (x,y) of an IMG when clicked?
  

• How to pass javascript variable as an argument from javascript to vbscript function?
  

• How to access the javascript console window in NN6 ? (in NN4 it was "javascript:" in the location address)
  

• Can I check the prefered user language?
  

• How do I expose the properties of an object?
  

• How do I open a window in the center of the parent window?
  

• how do I pass a value from one page to another using hidden form fields?
  

• How do I change the colour of any text in a table cell when that cell is selected?
  

• How can I force a File Download of a .pdf file with a hyperlink (bypassing Acrobat Reader)?
  

• How do I sort a two-dimensional array?
  

• How do I break out of frame in a page and proceed to another page with frames ?
  

• How can I blend in a layer like a curtain falling?
  How can I blend out a layer like a curtain lifted up?
  

• How to open a window in NN without losing the personal toolbar?
  

• What should I use in NN instead of "parent.c_main.window.scroll(0, 0);" for IE???
  

• Can I change that the url of the generating page is displayed when I document.write a page?
  

• How can I resize the Opener from its Popup window even if the user has entered into a different URL in the Opener?
  

• How can I get the name of the window which was active previously?
  

• How can access an HTML element in javascript using the element's ID?
  

• Trouble with display of a HTML TEXTAREA:
  

• How do I manipulate a style class?
  

• How to make a check box to check or uncheck all other check boxes in a form?
  

• How can I sort the options in a select?
  how can group string of 80 chars in listbox based on selected item in other dropdownbox .
  

• How can I set the background image of a table cell?
  How can I set the background color of a table cell?
  

• How can I insert a TABLE into an existing one?
  

• How can I let a FORM being submitted with the enter key without using Submit button on the form?
  

• How can I get a tooltip for a FORM element, e.g. a checkbox?
  

• Why does my liveconnect code not work with NN4.6?
  Why does the Netscape JavaScript debugger not work with NN4.6?
  

• How can I submit a form to an iframe?
  

• How can I set the color of text in a text field/text area?
  

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