How to properly end a javascript statement?

I need to compare the current time of day to a show's start and end time (I loop thru an array of the day's shows) so I can display the current show that is on the air during different times of day. I have it working in PHP, but in converting to javascript...

Hi, I'm trying to make a Hangman game in JavaScript. I want to have the player type the letter in a textbox and click. If the letter is part of the set of letters in the word, a letter will appear in another textbox as part of the word. If it isn't,...

im just about at my witts end with this, i just need the prompt to come up, which it doesnt, it does when i place it outside the if else statement, i just need the stupid thing to show up when i put it in the actual statement so it can get the data and...

A person invests $1,000 in a saving account yielding 5% interest. Assuming that all interest is left on deposit, calculate and display the amount of money in the account at the end of each year for 10 years. Use the following formula for determining...

What do the two parens at the end of this statement do? var foo = function() { // function body here.... )(); I see this quite a bit in the YUI javascript and was curious ...show more

Why is (function(){...}()); equivalent to (function(){...})(); when function(){...}(); is an error? Looking at the "railway diagrams" in "The Good Parts", even the last of these appears valid: a statement can be an expression; an...

Basically I am a creative designer/web designer but in the last couple of years I have been doing more Front End Development and now love CSS + HTML coding. Also JQuery and JavascriptI have over 8 years commercial experience I have recently been to a...

I'm basically trying to understand how much JavaScript a front end designer needs to know. Are they writing complicated JavaScript stuff, or is it mostly used to alter CSS?  Anything else besides HTML and CSS and JavaScript?