JavaScript - Random Quote
Last Update: 4.27.2009
Introduction
A friend asked me to write a JavaScript to randomly quotes from the movie Jaws. So I whipped up this little script up using an array and the Math library. Careful coding also ensures that the classy blockquote CSS shows through.
Demonstration
Your random quote is:
Go ahead and refresh the page to see a new quote. You know you want to.
Code
Here's the JavaScript function:
function show_quote()
{
// The array full of quotes
// If adding more quotes, add more lines, increasing the number in the [] by 1 each time.
var quotes = new Array()
quotes[0]="\"We're gonna need a bigger boat.\""
quotes[1]="\"Not with three in him. Not with three he can't!\""
quotes[2]="\"Can you do that?
I can do anything. I'm the chief of police.\""
// Getting a random number
// If adding more quotes, change the number at the end of the next line to the total number of elements in your array.
var r_number = Math.floor( Math.random()*3 );
// Prints the selected random element from the array.
document.write (quotes[r_number]);
}
