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The JavaScript Anthology 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks

By Cameron Adams, James Edwards
First Edition March 2006
Publisher: SitePoint
Pages: 592
ISBN 10: 0-9752402-6-9 | ISBN 13: 9780975240267

Book description

The JavaScript Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is a compilation of customizable solutions to the most common JavaScript questions and problems, including solutions using Ajax. All the code in the book is thoroughly tested, best practice, and standards-compliant to ensure that it will work across different browsers and platforms.
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Using a cookbook approach, The JavaScript Anthology will show you how to apply JavaScript to solve over 101 common Web Development challenges. You'll discover how-to:

Optimize your code so that it runs faster

Create Ajax applications with the XmlHttpRequest object

Validate web forms to improve usability

Take control of your web pages with the DOM

Ensure that your JavaScript code is accessible

Create slick drop-down menu systems

Included in this book is extensive coverage of DHTML and Ajax, including how-to create and customize advanced effects such as draggable elements, dynamically sorting data in a Web Browser, advanced menu systems, retrieving data from a Web Server using XMLHttpRequest and more.

The JavaScript Anthology also includes extensive coverage of object oriented coding, efficient script design, accessibility, and cross-browser issues. Best of all, you'll get download access to all the code used in the book, so you can put the scripts to use instantly.

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