Book description
Need to learn JavaScript fast? This best-selling
reference’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based
instructions will have you up and running with JavaScript in no
time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide
to JavaScript, leading Web and computing experts Tom Negrino and
Dori Smith use crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to
introduce you to all of today's JavaScript essentials. Along the
way, you'll find extensive coverage of Ajax and XML techniques,
current browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox), and more.
Visual QuickStart Guide--the quick and easy way to learn!
Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through JavaScript and show you what to do.
Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time.
Page for page, the best content and value around.
Companion Web site at www.javascriptworld.com offers sample scripts, updates, and more!
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Special Thanks To
- Introduction
- 1. Getting Acquainted with JavaScript
- 2. Start Me Up!
- 3. Language Essentials
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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
- 5. Frames, Frames, and More Frames
- 6. Working with Browser Windows
- 7. Form Handling
- 8. Forms and Regular Expressions
- 9. Handling Events
- 10. JavaScript and Cookies
- 11. Introducing CSS
- 12. Objects and the DOM
- 13. Making Your Pages Dynamic
- 14. Applied JavaScript
- 15. Introducing Ajax
- 16. Ajax Toolkits
- 17. Bookmarklets
- A. JavaScript Genealogy and Reference
- B. JavaScript Reserved Words
- C. Cascading Style Sheets Reference
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D. Where to Learn More
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Finding Help on the Web
- Mozilla sites
- Core JavaScript Guide 1.5
- Core JavaScript Reference 1.5
- Using Web Standards in Your Web Pages
- Venkman, the Mozilla JavaScript debugger
- Other great JavaScript sites
- Microsoft’s Scripting Languages page
- Yahoo! User Interface Library
- Yahoo! JavaScript Developer Center
- Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
- QuirksMode
- Web Standards Project’s DOM Scripting Task Force
- Weblogs
- DOM Scripting: The Blog
- Ajaxian
- Yahoo! User Interface Blog
- JavaScript World Scripting Forums
- JavaScript Usenet Newsgroup
- Books
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Finding Help on the Web
Product information
- Title: JavaScript and Ajax for the Web, Sixth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2006
- Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
- ISBN: 9780321430328
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