Like it or not pop ups are there to stay and often values need to be passed from the pop up to the parent window. Although modal window based popups are currently less popular and being replaced by (slicker?) div based ‘pseudo’ popups, its still worthwhile to know how to pass values from a popup to its parent window.

While there may be several ways to return to the referring url using javascript, php etc, the same effect can be achieved in a painless way using the ‘meta’ tag and Server Side Includes. This recipe shows you how.

Need to quickly implement a cross browser solution for Ajax type file upload but too lazy to read all the exhaustive tutorials out there? This quick how-to might be just for you. Although the server side code shown here uses PHP, this solution can be adapted for Java, Perl or whatever else you use on the server side.

Creating a table with a one pixel border can become quite frustrating for those not used to web programming. This recipe shows how to quickly create one that works across several major browsers.