Add a Quote of the Day widget

Ever wanted to post a [ Quote of a Day ] within your Blog but really knowing how to?! Well, it is not that difficult, all it requires is some JavaScript codes and vuala! Providing, you know what to do ... in this case, copy and paste will work.

The one I will demonstrate to you is a simple JavaScript which stores quotes and authors in a format called “arrays”. We all know a month has got 31 days (well more or less but we stick to 31 days) so within this javascript you can store 31 quotes which will display a new quote every day of the month.

Here we go:

Navigate to Template -> Page Elements , click Add a Page Element to the place you want your Quote of the Day to appear and then click on HTML/JavaScript.

Give it a Title Name and paste the following code into the content box:

<div style="border:1px solid #333; background-color: #fff; padding: 4px; margin-top: 5px; font-weight: bold;">

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

var d=new Date();

var quotes=new Array(31);

var authors=new Array(31);

quotes[0]="If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.";

quotes[1]="Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.";

quotes[2]="Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.";

quotes[3]="";

quotes[4]="";

quotes[5]="";

quotes[6]="";

quotes[7]="";

quotes[8]="";

quotes[9]="";

quotes[10]="";

quotes[11]="";

quotes[12]="";

quotes[13]="";

quotes[14]="";

quotes[15]="";

quotes[16]="";

quotes[17]="";

quotes[18]="";

quotes[19]="";

quotes[20]="";

quotes[21]="";

quotes[22]="";

quotes[23]="";

quotes[24]="";

quotes[25]="";

quotes[26]="";

quotes[27]="";

quotes[28]="";

quotes[29]="";

quotes[30]="";

authors[0]="Erma Bombeck";

authors[1]="Oscar Wilde";

authors[2]="Josh Billings";

authors[3]="";

authors[4]="";

authors[5]="";

authors[6]="";

authors[7]="";

authors[8]="";

authors[9]="";

authors[10]="";

authors[11]="";

authors[12]="";

authors[13]="";

authors[14]="";

authors[15]="";

authors[16]="";

authors[17]="";

authors[18]="";

authors[19]="";

authors[20]="";

authors[21]="";

authors[22]="";

authors[23]="";

authors[24]="";

authors[25]="";

authors[26]="";

authors[27]="";

authors[28]="";

authors[29]="";

authors[30]="";

document.write(quotes[d.getDate()-1] + '<div style="text-align: right; margin-top:5px; font-style: italic;' + authors[d.getDate()-1] + '</div>');

</script>
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</div>

A small explanation about the whole script & code:

I have defined a div table for the Quote of the Day to be displayed in with following atributes: 1px solid dark colour border, white background and 5 px spacing. If you do not want the table border to be displayed then there is a way of hidding it by simply replacing border:1px with border:0px and this will not show the border anymore.

Anyhow, you can of course change the border color, background color, spacing and even add other elements/atributes as you wish. If you need a list of color values, then visit the HTML Color Code Chart.

Note: When you type the quotations and names, do not use characters like " or ; and do not press “Enter” within the quotation marks as these are special characters which are used by JavaScript.