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Visual QuickStart Guide JavaScript and Ajax for the Web, Sixth Edition
By Tom Negrino, Dori Smith
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Publisher: Peachpit Press
Pub Date: August 28, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-321-43032-8
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-321-43032-8
Pages: 512

Table of Contents | Index

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Introduction

Chapter 1. Getting Acquainted with JavaScript

What JavaScript Is

JavaScript Isn't Java

Where JavaScript Came From

What JavaScript Can Do

What JavaScript Can't Do

The Snap-Together Language

Handling Events

Values and Variables

Assignments and Comparisons

Writing JavaScript-Friendly HTML

What Tools to Use?

Chapter 2. Start Me Up!

Where to Put Your Scripts

About Functions

Using External Scripts

Putting Comments in Scripts

Alerting the User

Confirming a User's Choice

Prompting the User

Redirecting the User with a Link

Using JavaScript to Enhance Links

Working with Referrer Pages

Chapter 3. Language Essentials

Around and Around with Loops

Passing a Value to a Function

Detecting Objects

Working with Arrays

Working with Functions That Return Values

Updating Arrays

Using Do/While Loops

Calling Scripts Multiple Ways

Using Multi-level Conditionals

Handling Errors

Chapter 4. Working with Images

Creating Rollovers

Creating More Effective Rollovers

Building Three-State Rollovers

Triggering Rollovers from a Link

Making Multiple Links Change a Single Rollover

Working with Multiple Rollovers

Creating Cycling Banners

Adding Links to Cycling Banners

Building Wraparound Slideshows

Displaying a Random Image

Cycling Images with a Random Start

Chapter 5. Frames, Frames, and More Frames

Keeping a Page out of a Frame

Forcing a Page into a Frame

Forcing a Site into a Frame

Setting a Target

Creating and Loading a Dynamic Frame

Sharing Functions between Frames

Storing Information in Frames

Loading Multiple Frames at Once

Working with Iframes

Loading Iframes with JavaScript

Chapter 6. Working with Browser Windows

Opening a New Window

Loading Different Contents into a Window

Opening Multiple Windows

Opening Multiple Windows Simultaneously

Updating One Window from Another

Creating New Pages with JavaScript

Closing a Window

Opening Windows in a Specified Location

Moving Windows to a Specified Location

Chapter 7. Form Handling

Select-and-Go Navigation

Changing Menus Dynamically

Making Fields Required

Checking Fields against Each Other

Identifying Problem Fields

Putting Form Validation into Action

Working with Radio Buttons

Setting One Field with Another

Validating Zip Codes

Validating Email Addresses

Chapter 8. Forms and Regular Expressions

Validating an Email Address with Regular Expressions

Validating a File Name

Extracting Strings

Formatting Strings

Formatting and Sorting Strings

Formatting and Validating Strings

Replacing Elements using Regular Expressions

Chapter 9. Handling Events

Handling Window Events

Mouse Event Handling

Form Event Handling

Key Event Handling

Chapter 10. JavaScript and Cookies

Baking Your First Cookie

Reading a Cookie

Showing Your Cookies

Using Cookies as Counters

Deleting Cookies

Handling Multiple Cookies

Displaying "New to You" Messages

Chapter 11. Introducing CSS

Saying It with Style

Styles with Class

Changing Fonts with CSS

Checking Your ID

Distinguished Links

Embedding Styles in Styles

Adding Background Images

Positioning Absolutely

Chapter 12. Objects and the DOM

About Node Manipulation

Deleting Specific Nodes

Inserting Nodes

Replacing Nodes

Chapter 13. Making Your Pages Dynamic

Putting the Current Date into a Web Page

Working with Days

Customizing a Message for the Time of Day

Displaying Dates by Time Zone

Converting Military Time to A.M./P.M.

Creating a Countdown

Moving an Object in the Document

Chapter 14. Applied JavaScript

Using Sliding Menus

Adding Pull-Down Menus

A Slideshow with Captions

A Silly Name Generator

A Bar Graph Generator

Style Sheet Switcher

Chapter 15. Introducing Ajax

Ajax: Pinning It Down

Reading Server Data

Parsing Server Data

Refreshing Server Data

Previewing Links with Ajax

Auto-Completing Form Fields

Chapter 16. Ajax Toolkits

Dragging and Dropping Page Elements

Adding a Calendar to Your Page

Adding a 2-up Calendar to Your Page

Using the Container Utility

Adding Animation Effects

Implementing the Logger Control for Debugging

Chapter 17. Bookmarklets

Your First Bookmarklet

Changing a Page's Background Color

Changing a Page's Styles

Web-safe Colors

Displaying ISO Latin Characters

Converting RGB Values to Hex

Converting Values

A Bookmarklet Calculator

Validating Pages

Appendix A. JavaScript Genealogy and Reference

JavaScript Versions

Browsers and JavaScript

Object Flowchart

The Big Object Table

Appendix B. JavaScript Reserved Words

Appendix C. Cascading Style Sheets Reference

Appendix D. Where to Learn More

Finding Help on the Web