Comments on: Display Random Quote Using JavaScript

By: Costin Trifan

Costin Trifan — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:06:48 +0000

That should be no problem.
All you have to do is to format how the quote and the link are displayed. This is mostly a matter of css.

Example:
Change this:
quote[0] = “When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.”;
to:
quote[0] = ‘[span class='text']When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.[/span][a href="your-url"]author name[/a]‘;

and that should do it.

By: bryan.o

bryan.o — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:34:47 +0000

Hi. This looks good.
Is there a simple way to select part of the text (or preferably add a source text/author name with its own text style) to be a link, which directs the user to an external URL.

For example: random quote is some words from a speech. The link (author’s name) directs user to a web page with the entire speech.

By: Costin Trifan

Costin Trifan — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:43:47 +0000

arghhh… it made my example look like a live link…

let’s try again:

display random quote

By: Costin Trifan

Costin Trifan — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:41:01 +0000

yeap,

display random quote

note that you have to return false to prevent the page from being posted back.

By: Chris Tillam

Chris Tillam — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:22:08 +0000

Hi, great script, but how can it be made to trigger from a link on the same page?

I thought I’ might find out from your link
“here is the link –> Random Quote”
but this launches a new page.

Do I take “Quotes.getRandomQuote()” out of the script and do

onclick=”Quotes.getRandomQuote()” ?

By: Prashant Vikram

Prashant Vikram — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:15:56 +0000

Nice script Costin.

By: Costin Trifan

Costin Trifan — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:28:07 +0000

I’m glad you like it.

By: Manish Pandey

Manish Pandey — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:21:35 +0000

Very interesting script Costin, thanks for putting it up for everybody.