I need a script for auto generating next and prev buttons

[SubEffect]

I'm trying to do something like this:

if (this.url=='page2.html'){
document.write('<input type=button value="next" onclick="this.url='page3.html'">');
document.write('<input type=button value="prev" onclick="this.url='page1.html'">');
}

That doesn't work for starters, but more than that I want to be able to access the page name, "page2" in this case, extract the number and then use it to auto generate the next and back buttons.

I'm finding this hard. I'm sure this is a common script type, but I can't find out how to do it. Can anyone help?

[mrhoo]

this.url doesn't mean anything to me- did you define it to mean the document.title, or the file name part of the location.href?

[SubEffect]

Sadly my JavaScript book is not with me so I cannot remember how to access the file name part of location.href, which is what I wanted to do.

Do you know of an online JavaScript resource that's as good as the W3C CSS one? I can't find anything I can use as well as my O'Reilly book.

[Kravvitz]

Actually this is not a normal JavaScript script type. Most people would use a server-side language to generate those.

I am concerned that your code is not following JavaScript Best Practices. I recommend you read up on them.

As far as references, here are some good ones:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/JavaScript
Mozilla JavaScript and DOM Reference
http://www.devguru.com/technologies/...ipt_index.html
http://www.quirksmode.org/

[SubEffect]

If I had it my way the site would be done in PHP but I'm only creating the site, I don't have control over the hosting deal.

Thanks for the links.