Tutorial Put Comma Values in Numbers

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This function assumes what is being submitted to it is a string, with a decimal point and two places after the decimal. To get your number into that format first, use this.

Then this function will properly comma separate the number. For example, 2345643.00 will return 2,345,643.00

function CommaFormatted(amount) {
	var delimiter = ","; // replace comma if desired
	var a = amount.split('.',2)
	var d = a[1];
	var i = parseInt(a[0]);
	if(isNaN(i)) { return ''; }
	var minus = '';
	if(i < 0) { minus = '-'; }
	i = Math.abs(i);
	var n = new String(i);
	var a = [];
	while(n.length > 3) {
		var nn = n.substr(n.length-3);
		a.unshift(nn);
		n = n.substr(0,n.length-3);
	}
	if(n.length > 0) { a.unshift(n); }
	n = a.join(delimiter);
	if(d.length < 1) { amount = n; }
	else { amount = n + '.' + d; }
	amount = minus + amount;
	return amount;
}

Tutorial Print Object To Screen

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PHP has a nice print_r function for printing out information about a variable to the screen. console.log() is great for that in JavaScript also, but sometimes you just need/want to look at it on the screen.

function print_r(o) {
  return JSON.stringify(o,null,'\t').replace(/\n/g,'<br>').replace(/\t/g,'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'); 
}

So if you have an object like: 

var myObject = {
   "lunch": "sandwich",
   "dinner": "stirfry"
};

You could do:

var putHere = document.getElementById("#put-here");

putHere.innerHTML = print_r(myObject);

to see the result on screen.

Also, console.table() is sometimes much better than console.log() for this kind of thing.

Tutorial Prevent Embedded JavaScript from Failing Validation

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Ever see that CDATA stuff in JavaScript and wonder what it was for? It is to prevent the validator from reading that code as markup and failing validation. For example, ampersands (&) and greater-than / less-than signs (< >)are often culprits for failing validation when it's actually perfectly OK to use them in JavaScript.

<script type="text/javascript">
  //<![CDATA[

    alert("<This is compatible with XHTML>");

  //]]>
</script>

Tutorial Prevent Background Image Flickering in IE

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try {
 document.execCommand("BackgroundImageCache", false, true);
} catch(err) {}

Tutorial Perform Function At Timed Intervals

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Perform a function every one second:

function myFunction() {
   // do something
}

var int = setInterval(myFunction, 1000);

Cancel it:

clearInterval(int);

Pass variables when calling custom function:

setInterval(function(){ doMove(panelWidth, tooFar); }, delayLength);

Tutorial PageVisibility API

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<!DOCTYPE HTML>  
 <html>  
 <head>  
      <script type="text/javascript">  
           timer = 0;  
           function onLoad(){  
                document.addEventListener("visibilitychange",stateChanged);  
                document.addEventListener("webkitvisibilitychange", stateChanged);  
                document.addEventListener("msvisibilitychange", stateChanged);  
           }  
           function stateChanged(){  
                console.log(document.webkitVisibilityState);  
                if(document.hidden || document.webkitHidden || document.msHidden){  
                     //new tab or window minimized
                     timer = new Date().getTime();  
                }  
                else {  
                     alert('You were away for ' + (new Date().getTime()-timer)/1000+ ' seconds.')  
                }  
           }  
      </script>  
 </head>  
 <body >  
 </body>  
 </html>

Demo by Sagar Ganatra

Tutorial Namespaced Javascript Template

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Self invoking anonymous function assigned to the yournamespacechoice global variable. Serves the effect of keeping all functions and variables private to this function. To expose a function or variable we must explictly return it at the bottom of the function. Remaps jQuery to $.

var yournamespacechoice = (function ($) {
   var publicfunction;

   function privatefunction() {
       // function only available within parent function
   }

   publicfunction = function publicfunction() {
       // public function available outside of this funtion
   };

   // Expose any functions that we need to access outside of this scope. Use yournamespacechoice.functionName() to call them.
   return {
       publicfunction: publicfunction
   };
}(window.$));