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Topic: Simple javascript

Posted By: Mart
Subject: Simple javascript
Date Posted: 02 August 2003 at 1:23pm

Hello, i need some helpl writing a simple javascript i want it to display an alert this is what i have got so far:

It works fine but i want it to only alert once eg. by setting a cookie but i have no idea how to set cookies in javascript.

Thanks, Mart.

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Posted By: KCWebMonkey
Date Posted: 03 August 2003 at 3:21pm

This article has 5 or 6 pages on creating and reading cookies with javascript.

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/98/29/index1a_page7.html?tw=programming - http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/98/29/index1a_page7.html?tw=programming

Posted By: PaulGQ
Date Posted: 03 August 2003 at 4:00pm

instead of a cookie, I would just attach it to a dingy or pic that displays "new message". use the onload function to trigger the function the one time a new messgae indicated.

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 04 August 2003 at 10:19am

Thanks for that KCWebMonkey it works perfect now...

Posted By: KCWebMonkey
Date Posted: 04 August 2003 at 11:11am

no problem.