Dot Net Thoughts

I already posted some code to add and read values from dropdown lists using Javascript. Sometimes we require to reset the items to zero or need to clear the items in the dropdown list. Here is a simple code snippet which will reset the dropdown items.

function clearDropdown(dropdown)
{
var mycombo =document.getElementById(dropdown);
mycombo.options.length = 0;
return(false);
}

And you can use this [...]

If your writing cross-browser web applications, it is nessary to detcect Browser name and version. Because some of the javascript code like forms[] and controls[] will not work in all browsers, and document.getElementById() will not work in old version browsers.
Here is the code to detect browser name and version.

var browser=navigator.appName
var version= parseFloat(navigator.appVersion)
alert("You are running " [...]