Displaying Random Images with Javascript

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If your site is rich with graphics, or if you are displaying digital artwork, then you may want to have a random image from your collection appear when the user enters your site.

This simple HTML creates the page for a random image.

Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
     <title>Random Image</title>
     <script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript" src="script10.js"></script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
     <img src="images/spacer.gif" width="305" height="312" id="myPicture" alt="some image" />
</body>
</html>
You can display random images on your page with this script, which uses JavaScript's Math.random method to generate a random number.

Code:
window.onload = choosePic;

var myPix = new Array("images/lion.jpg", "images/tiger.jpg","images/bear.jpg");
function choosePic() {
      randomNum = Math.floor((Math.random() * myPix.length));
      document.getElementById("myPicture").src = myPix[randomNum];
}

Depending on the value of the random number generated by the script, the user is presented with your setting

To display a random image:

1.
Code:
var myPix = new Array ("images/lion.jpg", "images/tiger.jpg", "images/bear.jpg");
As is now familiar, build an array of three images, and stuff it into the variable myPix.

2.
Code:
[CODE]function choosePic() {
[/CODE]

Define the function choosePic().

3.
Code:
randomNum = Math.floor ((Math.random() * myPix.length));
The variable called randomNum gets the value of a math expression that's best read from the inside outwards. Math.random generates a random number between 0 and 1, which is then multiplied by myPix.length, which is the number of items in the array (in this case, it's 3). Math.floor rounds the result down to an integer, which means that the number must be between 0 and 2.

4.
Code:
document.getElementById ("myPicture").src = myPix[randomNum];
This says that the source of the image myPicture is set based on the array myPix, and the value at this moment is dependent on the value of randomNum.
 
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