Let us build a library!

[DrDoc]

We are quickly approaching 25,000 posts in the JavaScript forum. However, the library is a dismal sight (at best). I would like to start building a quality library of quality threads.

What are some of the most valuable topics you have seen throughout the last year or two? Let's use this thread as a starting point. Submit topics you have flagged or bookmarked, or topics that made an impact on how you think or write JavaScript. The topics can be about anything, but they have to have one thing in common -- highlight or provide answer(s) to specific JavaScript related methods or technologies, whether simple or complex.

If you want to submit a suggestion for a topic to include in the library, please post the URL to the topic in question, along with a brief summary. Posts failing to include either the URL or the summary will be deleted without further explanation.

[ogletree]

handy, generic javascript coding [webmasterworld.com]
We're getting some good js routines scattered all over. I thought we'd try collecting a few of them here as a reference.

[ogletree]

hiding javascript [webmasterworld.com]
Very good thread about hiding javascript and problems you can run into.

[DrDoc]

*bump*

c'mon, there are lots of quality threads! :)

[rocknbil]

Well I've been doing Javascript for centuries but there are many here more advanced than I. Some things I see that keep coming up:

Why you should assign a unique name to a JAVASCRIPT new window [webmasterworld.com]
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/11263.htm

And other comments on the abuse and misuse of window.open()

How to reference the main window from a popup [webmasterworld.com]
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum91/3147.htm

Removing Rows in a Loop [webmasterworld.com], and a supplemental post here [webmasterworld.com]
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum91/4524.htm
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum91/4435.htm

Although in context of a table, Mr. Marx succinctly reveals some exceptionally cool methods of altering the current document.

Form Validation part 1 [webmasterworld.com] and Form Validation part 2 [webmasterworld.com]
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum91/420.htm
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum91/437.htm

There are thousands of these and it's asked after millions of times, does it need further errrr . . . validation? :-)

Although the Suckerfish has outdated these methods to an extent, BobFisk and tedster's JumStart on DHTML menus [webmasterworld.com] is a must read for any JS coder.
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum91/442.htm

In fact, any of the Javascript JumpStarts [google.com] are worthy of inclusion in a library, IMHO.
URL too long, use search

Javascript Links that Search Engines Can Follow [webmasterworld.com] will help rid the web of 'href="javascript:whoopsie();' forever. Well, for today. As we all know, javascript is not a document or an image, its a state of being. :-)

So when do I get the check? :-)