October 1998
Intermediate to advanced
95 pages
4h 36m
English
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Contents
The JavaScript Language 1
Syntax 1
Variables 3
Data Types 4
Expressions and Operators 9
Statements 12
Object-Oriented JavaScript 18
Regular Expressions 19
Versions of JavaScript 22
Client-side JavaScript 24
JavaScript in HTML 25
The Window Object 26
The Document Object 32
The Legacy DOM 33
The W3C DOM 38
IE 4 DOM 43
DHTML: Scripting CSS Styles 45
Events and Event Handling 47
JavaScript Security Restrictions 51
JavaScript API Reference 52
Anchor 54
Applet 54
Arguments 55
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Array 56
Attr 58
Boolean 58
Comment 59
DOMException 59
DOMImplementation 60
Date 61
Document 65
DocumentFragment 71
Element 72
Error 78
Event 78
Form 84
Function 86
Global 87
History 89
Image 89
Input 91
Layer 93
Link 97
Location 99
Math 99
Navigator 102
Node 104
Number 107
Object 109
Option 110
RegExp 111
Screen 113
Select 113
String 115
Style 118
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Text 119
Textarea 120
Window 122
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