HTML | Robert James Metcalfe Blog

AutoCompletion ComboBox Drill Down Tutorial

After yesterday’s AutoCompletion ComboBox Navigate Tutorial, today we want to turn our attention to “data matters”. So far our data has consisted of … initial layer of hardcopy data … and yesterday we offered … user enterable Wikipedia “List Of” … Continue reading →

AutoCompletion ComboBox Navigate Tutorial

Today’s task on top of the proof of concept work of yesterday’s AutoCompletion ComboBox Primer Tutorial is to get some meaningful functionality when clicking that “Test” button (which up until today you would describe as “Validation only” functionality). And so, … Continue reading →

AutoCompletion ComboBox Primer Tutorial

We have a desire to combine … “ComboBox” ideas of ComboBox Sort Tutorial … with … AutoCompletion ideas for text entry, in today’s case, within an HTML div contenteditable=true … and we’re just at a “proof of concept” stage of … Continue reading →

Sprite Background Menu Navigation Javascript Tutorial

Yesterday’s Sprite Background Menu Navigation Primer Tutorial set the scenario for today’s work, that we are often looking for. You see, we’re trying to help beginners to web application creation here, by and large, and there is no better topic … Continue reading →

Sprite Background Menu Navigation Primer Tutorial

There are a lot of ways to design and code for a menu used for navigation in a webpage. We happened to be reading CSS Sprites, and where it said … CSS sprites technique is a way to reduce the … Continue reading →

CSS Gradient Creations Width Makeover Tutorial

Revisits to a web application, after some time, can bring “adverse” categories of reaction to me … UX (user experience) Javascript criticism … styling CSS annoyance … and today’s work, on our “Gradient Creations” web application, is as a result … Continue reading →

November 2026
S	M	T	W	T	F	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30

Latest Comments
1. Sean Zhang on Cocos2d Mac Game Hello World Cocos Creator TutorialNovember 14, 2026
  The Hello World starting point makes it easier to separate project setup from asset problems. A useful follow-up would be importing a small sprite sheet and checking frame dimensions, ordering and padding before adding animation logic. Previewing the individual frames first can help identify whether a problem comes from the artwork or from the engine configuration.
2. Hello Team on Javascript Course Primer TutorialNovember 13, 2026
  The distinction between course-driven and immersion-driven learning is useful. A small extension to the australia.htm exercise would be a set of named map markers and a text filter: first update the visible markers on an input event, then add a collected/uncollected toggle, and finally persist only that toggle state in localStorage. That gives beginners a concrete reason to learn arrays, DOM updates and browser storage without needing PHP or MySQL first. It is also worth testing empty searches, a page reload and disabled storage separately; those are different failure cases. Disclosure: we maintain the GTA 6 interactive map. I am suggesting it as an example of a map-and-progress interface, not claiming that we used the tutorial code. Would you introduce persistence after the first working interaction, or keep the initial exercise entirely stateless?
3. tooloteca on Tabular Single Row Radio Play TutorialNovember 12, 2026
  What I find most interesting here is how honestly the post names the hard part: getting focus to work with [element].click() and [element].blur() is the kind of detail that looks trivial until you actually try to drive a page this way. The single-row table that deliberately overflows to the right also makes sense as a design choice, since a radio playlist needs to be scrolled through rather than squeezed into one screen. And the payoff — clicking one song link and having the songs play in sequence and loop back through the list — is a neat reward for all that plumbing with the audio-only YouTube player.
4. Aleister on Tabular Single Row Radio Play TutorialOctober 22, 2026
  I like the single-row radio-play approach for keeping the controls compact while still making each selection clear. When I’m checking a calculation alongside a tutorial, I use StepStat to see the intermediate steps; how do you handle the layout when the playlist gets much longer?
5. anagrampuzzle on Tabular Single Row Radio Play TutorialOctober 18, 2026
  The idea of mapping a video's key scenes, mood, pacing, and audio before production resonates with me — it's a lot like working out an anagrampuzzle, where the same pieces only make sense once you rearrange them into the right order. Do you usually sketch the mind map before or after the script is locked?

Your Numbers Game
Get clue	Your answer	Your Score
Clue?		Score 0/0

Tag Archives: HTML

Sprite Background Menu Navigation Javascript Tutorial

Sprite Background Menu Navigation Primer Tutorial

CSS Gradient Creations Mobile Width Tutorial

CSS Gradient Creations Width Makeover Tutorial

Numbers Guessing Game

Your Numbers Game

Recent Posts

Categories

Meta

Your Background Image

OnTopList

Latest Comments