As always, I’m constantly looking for ways to speed up my coding, to keep files scalable and manageable. Here’s a tip that will let you `import` your external JavaScript files much like you would `import` your external CSS files (, but that’s different post.)

No, we can’t literally import our JavaScript like CSS, but the concept is the same. We can link to one JavaScript file and have it include additional JavaScript files for us, and here’s how we do that.

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If you’ve ever done a search on Google for “javascript tooltip“, you’ve probably come across Walter Zorn’s DHTML JavaScript Tooltips.  As I write this Walter’s web site comes up as the first result out of 1,490,000.  I don’t know Walter, and I doubt I’ll ever have the chance to actually meet him, but if you’re looking for a JavaScript tooltip, his script is the one to use.

Now for those of you saying, “I want one that works with JQuery!”, hold your horses.  No, Walter’s script isn’t a nifty little JQuery plugin, but that’s the best part, it doesn’t have to be.  The WZ Tooltip script can be used with or with out JQuery, and it works the same and just as good under either circumstance.   I know you’re saying stop rambling and tell me how to use it with JQuery….

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Before I learned PHP, I used JavaScript a lot, and after learning PHP, I eased up on using JavaScript due to the amount of time it took for me to integrate the PHP output with the JavaScript.  As a result my web applications functioned, but without any flair.  Despite the dynamics added by PHP, they were still very much `static` in appearance.  JQuery however, has revived my use of JavaScript, and has lived up to it’s promise of `Write Less, Do Nore`.

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I found that when I tried to use Script.aculo.us and TinyMCE together, that I lost 1 functionality of one of the two scripts on Firefox. The solution I found was

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