Chapter 24. JavaScript: Adding Dynamic Content to Web Pages

Topics in This Chapter

  • Building HTML as the page is loaded

  • Monitoring user events

  • Building cross-platform scripts

  • Mastering JavaScript syntax

  • Using JavaScript to customize Web pages

  • Using JavaScript to make pages more dynamic

  • Using JavaScript to validate CGI forms

  • Using JavaScript to manipulate HTTP cookies

  • Using JavaScript to interact with and control frames

  • Calling Java from JavaScript

  • Accessing JavaScript from Java

Despite the similarity in name, JavaScript is very different from Java. JavaScript is a scripting language that is embedded in Web pages and interpreted as the page is loaded. Java is a general-purpose programming language that can be used for desktop application, server-side programs, ...

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