Visual QuickStart Guide: JavaScript, Ninth Edition

12. Applied JavaScript

In This Chapter

Using Sliding Menus

Adding Pull-Down Menus

Enhancing Pull-Down Menus

A Slideshow with Captions

A Silly Name Generator

A Bar Graph Generator

Style Sheet Switcher

In earlier chapters of this book, you learned how to use dozens of JavaScript techniques to accomplish specific tasks. On many webpages that you build, you’ll often need just one technique, and you’ll be able to use a script from this book (usually with minor modifications).

But sometimes you’ll need to use more than one technique to get the job done. That’s where this chapter comes in. The tasks you’ll find here require a variety of approaches and are similar (in spirit, if not in specifics) to what you’ll need to do on your own websites.

In this ...