Author:
Negrino, Tom.
Edition Statement:7th ed.
Imprint:Berkeley, CA : Peachpit Press, c2009.
Descriptionxviii, 525 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:Getting Acquainted with JavaScript -- What JavaScript Is -- JavaScript Isn't Java -- Where JavaScript Came From -- What JavaScript Can Do -- What JavaScript Can't Do -- What Is Ajax? -- The Snap-Together Language -- Handling Events -- Values and Variables -- Assignments and Comparisons -- Writing JavaScript-Friendly HTML -- What Tools to Use? -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Handling Events -- Handling Window Events -- Mouse Event Handling -- Form Event Handling -- Key Event Handling -- 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 -- 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 -- Objects and the DOM -- About Node Manipulation -- Adding Nodes -- Deleting Nodes -- Deleting Specific Nodes -- Inserting Nodes -- Replacing Nodes -- 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 -- Date Methods -- Applied JavaScript -- Using Sliding Menus -- Adding Pull-Down Menus -- A Slideshow with Captions -- A Silly Name Generator -- A Bar Graph Generator -- Style Sheet Switcher -- Introducing Ajax -- Ajax: Pinning It Down -- Reading Server Data -- Parsing Server Data -- Refreshing Server Data -- Previewing Links with Ajax -- Auto-Completing Form Fields -- 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 -- Bookmarklets -- Your First Bookmarklet -- Changing a Page's Background Color -- Changing a Page's Styles -- Web-safe Colors -- Word Lookups -- Viewing Images -- Displaying ISO Latin Characters -- Converting RGB Values to Hex -- Converting Values -- A Bookmarklet Calculator -- Validating Pages -- JavaScript Genealogy and Reference -- JavaScript Versions -- ECMAScript -- Browsers and JavaScript -- Object Flowchart -- The Big Object Table -- JavaScript Reserved Words -- Cascading Style Sheets Reference -- Finding Help on the Web.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
