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JavaScript Pocket Reference
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JavaScript Pocket Reference

by David Flanagan
October 1998
Intermediate to advanced
95 pages
4h 36m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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unescape(s)
Decodes a string encoded with escape(). Returns a decoded
copy of
s. JS 1.0; JScript 1.0; ECMA v1; deprecated in ECMA
v3; use
decodeURI() and decodeURIComponent() instead.
See Also
Window
History
go back or forward in browsing history
Client-side JavaScript 1.0
Synopsis
window.history
history
Methods
back()
Goes back to a previously visited URL in the browsing
history. Returns nothing.
forward()
Goes forward in the browsing history. Returns nothing.
go(n)
Goes to the nth URL relative to the currently displayed URL.
Calling this method with -1 is the same as calling the
back()
method. Returns nothing.
Image
an HTML image
Client-side JavaScript 1.1
Inherits From: Element
Synopsis
document.images[i]
document.images[image-name]
document.image-name
Constructor
new Image(width, height);
Image
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This constructor creates an off-screen Image object that cannot be
displayed. The
width and height arguments are optional. Setting
the
src attribute of the resulting object causes the browser to
preload an image into its cache.
Properties
The Image object defines properties for each of the attributes of
the HTML
<img> element, such as src, border, width, height,
vspace, and hspace. In addition, it defines or provides special
behavior for the following properties:
complete ...
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