mossup

Recently I got a bit stuck trying to do the simple task of set some values on a checkbox. The form was quite complex and I was finding that checking a checkbox to signify a "FollowUp" had occurred was not being posted back to the server. It took quite a bit of fiddling around before I got to the bottom of the problem so thought I would record the solution...

In a previous post, I mentioned how a JavaScript object can be thought of simply as a collection of properties. But a property in JavaScript is more than just a value - property’s themselves have… well properties.

I've been messing around with JavaScript for years now, but have been more of a JQuery hacker. I thought it was time to learn the language properly as its becoming increasingly common in web applications these days. This is a bit of a dummies guide, but I guess you need to start somewhere...