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"Question bout my jokes page."

This is cheeseman on bro's name.

I am trying to make a jokes page which has one joke displayed and then when the visitor clicks on next it shows a different joke and then they click again and it shows a different joke but it is still on the same page. What would be the easiest way to do this. Preferably using some sort of HTML.

If that's what you want, then pick one over the other, and copy the relevent code:

The array section is for both example.

document.JokeForm.JokeBox.value = Jokes[Number];
= is just for the first example.

if (! document.layers && ! document.all) return;
if (document.layers) {
document.layers.JokeArea.document.write(Jokes[Number]);
document.layers.JokeArea.document.close();
} else if (document.all) {
JokeArea.innerHTML = Jokes[Number];
}
= is for the second example.

Why not have a look at this, and see if its in the right direction as to what your after. It'll be easier than using an iframe and having saperate pages for each joke.

You can of course alter the html and colours, I picked pink just because it was the first light colour I thought of to show what area was being covered.

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... OR ...






[Another Joke]

You could also use the Math.random in JS to randomise which page is displayed next in the IFrame, but I can't be bothered to go through that right now, and even if you do decide to use it, you'll need to do this first:

(correct me if I'm wrong someone - this is all from memory)
Save your jokes on separate HTML files, and then in the page you want to display the frame, you must put in the HTML code:



Then, on each of your joke pages you'll need to put this in the header section:



The 20 is just the time in seconds, you could also do this via a normal link, but it sort of defeats the purpose then.

I think that's allright, if you get any probs I'll do my best to work out where I went wrong :)

that would be ok. how would i do that? i could still say it was random couldnt i because the visitors arent gonna know unless they view it multiple times and realise.

You could have that bit in an inline frame in the middle, and have it on a meta refresh to the next joke, or could invoke it via some sort of event, but it's not random, just a sequence.

Isnt there a way to do it with html? with frames or summit?

If I get bored and no one beats me to it, i'll have a go at writing something to do it for you.

Expanding on what phi11ip said:

You could use the array, as he said although I'm not sure that's the code to create an array, I always thought you had the information inside it in square brackets like this:
jokes = new Array["joke1", "joke2" etc]

Then use the math.random thing to:
(not sure i've got the code for this right, but the idea's here: )
randomNumber = math.randomsomthingorother
document.write(jokes[randomNumber]), then, could you use an onClick in a font tag or something to re-write that document.write, so hopefully a new joke appears?

The idea's here, but not too sure about the code

Javascript - Random Text

I just copied this, dunno what it does...

This is cheeseman on bro's name.

I am trying to make a jokes page which has one joke displayed and then when the visitor clicks on next it shows a different joke and then they click again and it shows a different joke but it is still on the same page. What would be the easiest way to do this. Preferably using some sort of HTML.