Archive for July, 2008

On more than one occasion these characters  have turned up just when everything else seems fine.  Known as a “BOM” or Byte Order Mark they can be extremely annoying.
What is  ???
 is often seen at the top left corner of a web page.  When you open the source file and compare that to [...]

To remove stuff such as punction and spaces (or anything you want) from a text box before sending to the server for validation you can use code like this, first the HTML:-

<input
name="name"
onblur="this.value = entrycheck(this.value);"
type="text"
size="20">

And then the following Javascript will remove invalid characters when the user moves to another field:-

<script type="text/javascript">
function namecheck(theInput) [...]