Book description
The Web doesn¿t stand still¿not even for a minute¿and neither do the languages that Web pages are based on. That¿s why you need this eagerly anticipated update to the popular JavaScript for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide. Through a combination of task-based instruction and strong visuals, best-selling authors and Web gurus Tom Negrino and Dori Smith take you step by step through all of today¿s JavaScript essentials: creating navigation bars and other user interface elements, producing dynamic images and smart forms, controlling and detecting browsers, creating and manipulating windows, validating user entries in Web forms, and more. Whether you¿re a beginning scripter who wants a thorough introduction to the topic or a more advanced scripter who needs a convenient reference, you¿ll find what you need here¿in straightforward language peppered with tips and techniques drawn from the authors¿ years of experience. By the end of the volume, you¿ll be able to smoothly integrate HTML, JavaScript, and CSS to bring your Web sites to life.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Introduction
- 1. Getting Acquainted with JavaScript
- 2. Start Me Up!
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3. Language Essentials
- Detecting Browser Plug-ins
- Around and Around with Loops
- Writing with Loops
- Using For/In Loops
- Using Do/While Loops
- Checking if Java Is Enabled
- Functions
- Using Multi-level Conditionals
- Working with Functions That Return Values
- Handling Errors
- Putting More than One Script on a Page
- Scrolling Status Bars
- Status Bar Messages
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4. Image Basics
- Creating Rollovers
- Creating More Effective Rollovers
- Putting Multiple Rollovers on a Page
- Triggering Rollovers from a Link
- Making Multiple Links Change a Single Rollover
- Working with Multiple Rollovers
- Using a Function to Code Multiple Images with a Single Rollover
- Using a Function to Code Multiple Rollovers
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5. More Fun with Images
- Creating Cycling Banners
- Creating Multiple Cycling Banners
- Making the Banner Cycling Wait for the User
- Adding Links to Cycling Banners
- Building Slideshows
- Building Wraparound Slideshows
- Displaying a Random Image
- Cycling Images with a Random Start
- Displaying Multiple Random Images
- Combining a Rollover with an Image Map
- 6. Frames, Frames, and More Frames
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7. Working with Browser Windows
- Opening a New Window
- Loading Different Contents into a Window
- Opening a New Window Using an Image Link
- Opening Multiple Windows
- Opening Multiple Windows Simultaneously
- Scrolling a Window
- Updating One Window from Another
- Creating New Pages with JavaScript
- Closing a Window
- Creating a Control Panel
- Positioning a Window on the Screen
- Displaying an Alert when a Window is Loaded
- 8. Form Handling
- 9. Forms and Regular Expressions
- 10. Making Your Pages Dynamic
- 11. Handling Events
- 12. JavaScript and Cookies
- 13. Introducing CSS
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14. Working with DHTML
- DHTML Browsers & “Standards”
- Moving an Object in Two Dimensions
- Moving an Object in Two Dimensions
- Moving an Object in Two Dimensions
- Moving an Object in Two Dimensions
- Moving an Object in Three Dimensions
- Moving an Object in Three Dimensions
- Moving an Object in Three Dimensions
- Moving DHTML Text
- Modifying a DHTML Drop Shadow
- Rotating a DHTML Shadow
- Modifying a DHTML Glow
- 15. User Interface Design with JavaScript
- 16. Applied JavaScript
- 17. Manipulating Nodes
- 18. Bookmarklets
- 19. Working with Visual Tools
- 20. Debugging Common Errors
- A. JavaScript Genealogy and Reference
- B. JavaScript Reserved Words
- C. Cascading Style Sheets Reference
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D. Where to Learn More
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Finding Help on the Web
- Netscape and Mozilla sites
- Core JavaScript Guide 1.5
- Core JavaScript Reference 1.5
- Using Web Standards in Your Web Pages
- Other great JavaScript sites
- Microsoft's JScript Web page
- EarthWeb's JavaScript site
- Builder.com
- WebReference
- Doc JavaScript
- Peter-Paul Koch's JavaScript site
- Script Repositories
- JavaScript Kit
- Dynamic Drive
- JavaScript Source
- Usenet Newsgroups
- Books
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Finding Help on the Web
Product information
- Title: Javascript for the World Wide Web: Visual Quickstart Guide, Fifth Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2003
- Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
- ISBN: 9780321194398
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