JavaScript and Ajax for the Web, Sixth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide

Table of contents

1. Copyright
   1. Dedication
2. Special Thanks To
3. Introduction
   1. We Wrote this Book for You
   2. How to Use this Book
   3. You Say Browser, We Say Kumbaya
   4. Don’t Type that Code!
   5. Time to Get Started
4. 1. Getting Acquainted with JavaScript
   1. What JavaScript Is
   2. JavaScript Isn’t Java
   3. Where JavaScript Came From
   4. What JavaScript Can Do
   5. What JavaScript Can’t Do
   6. What Is Ajax?
   7. The Snap-Together Language
      1. Objects
      2. Properties
      3. Methods
      4. Putting the pieces together
      5. Introducing the Document Object Model
   8. Handling Events
   9. Values and Variables
      1. Operators
   10. Assignments and Comparisons
       1. Comparisons
   11. Writing JavaScript-Friendly HTML
       1. Structure, presentation, and behavior
       2. Divs and spans
       3. Classes and ids
   12. What Tools to Use?
5. 2. Start Me Up!
   1. Where to Put Your Scripts
   2. About Functions
   3. Using External Scripts
   4. Putting Comments in Scripts
   5. Alerting the User
   6. Confirming a User’s Choice
      1. More about conditionals
   7. Prompting the User
   8. Redirecting the User with a Link
   9. Using JavaScript to Enhance Links
   10. Working with Referrer Pages
6. 3. Language Essentials
   1. Around and Around with Loops
      1. More about loops
   2. Passing a Value to a Function
   3. Detecting Objects
   4. Working with Arrays
   5. Working with Functions That Return Values
   6. Updating Arrays
   7. Using Do/While Loops
   8. Calling Scripts Multiple Ways
   9. Using Multi-level Conditionals
   10. Handling Errors
7. 4. Working with Images
   1. Creating Rollovers
   2. Creating More Effective Rollovers
   3. Building Three-State Rollovers
   4. Triggering Rollovers from a Link
   5. Making Multiple Links Change a Single Rollover
   6. Working with Multiple Rollovers
   7. Creating Cycling Banners
   8. Adding Links to Cycling Banners
   9. Building Wraparound Slideshows
   10. Displaying a Random Image
   11. Cycling Images with a Random Start
8. 5. Frames, Frames, and More Frames
   1. Keeping a Page out of a Frame
   2. Forcing a Page into a Frame
   3. Forcing a Site into a Frame
   4. Setting a Target
   5. Creating and Loading a Dynamic Frame
   6. Sharing Functions between Frames
   7. Storing Information in Frames
   8. Loading Multiple Frames at Once
   9. Working with Iframes
   10. Loading Iframes with JavaScript
9. 6. Working with Browser Windows
   1. Opening a New Window
   2. Loading Different Contents into a Window
   3. Opening Multiple Windows
   4. Opening Multiple Windows Simultaneously
   5. Updating One Window from Another
   6. Creating New Pages with JavaScript
   7. Closing a Window
   8. Opening Windows in a Specified Location
   9. Moving Windows to a Specified Location
10. 7. Form Handling
    1. Select-and-Go Navigation
    2. Changing Menus Dynamically
    3. Making Fields Required
    4. Checking Fields against Each Other
    5. Identifying Problem Fields
    6. Putting Form Validation into Action
    7. Working with Radio Buttons
    8. Setting One Field with Another
    9. Validating Zip Codes
    10. Validating Email Addresses
11. 8. Forms and Regular Expressions
    1. Validating an Email Address with Regular Expressions
    2. Validating a File Name
    3. Extracting Strings
    4. Formatting Strings
    5. Formatting and Sorting Strings
    6. Formatting and Validating Strings
    7. Replacing Elements using Regular Expressions
12. 9. Handling Events
    1. Handling Window Events
       1. The onload event
       2. The onunload event
       3. The onresize event
       4. The onmove event
       5. The onabort event
       6. The onerror event
       7. The onfocus event
       8. The onblur event
    2. Mouse Event Handling
       1. The onmousedown event
       2. The onmouseup event
       3. The onmousemove event
       4. The onmouseover event
       5. The onmouseout event
       6. The ondblclick event
       7. The onclick event
    3. Form Event Handling
       1. The onsubmit event
       2. The onreset event
       3. The onchange event
       4. The onselect event
       5. The onclick event
       6. The onblur event
       7. The onfocus event
    4. Key Event Handling
       1. The onkeydown event
       2. The onkeyup event
       3. The onkeypress event
13. 10. JavaScript and Cookies
    1. Baking Your First Cookie
    2. Reading a Cookie
    3. Showing Your Cookies
    4. Using Cookies as Counters
    5. Deleting Cookies
    6. Handling Multiple Cookies
    7. Displaying “New to You” Messages
14. 11. Introducing CSS
    1. Saying It with Style
    2. Styles with Class
    3. Changing Fonts with CSS
    4. Checking Your ID
    5. Distinguished Links
    6. Embedding Styles in Styles
    7. Adding Background Images
    8. Positioning Absolutely
15. 12. Objects and the DOM
    1. About Node Manipulation
       1. DOM-2 and the W3C
       2. DOM-2 terminology
       3. DOM-3
    2. Adding Nodes
    3. Deleting Nodes
    4. Deleting Specific Nodes
    5. Inserting Nodes
    6. Replacing Nodes
16. 13. Making Your Pages Dynamic
    1. Putting the Current Date into a Web Page
    2. Working with Days
    3. Customizing a Message for the Time of Day
    4. Displaying Dates by Time Zone
    5. Converting Military Time to A.M./P.M.
    6. Creating a Countdown
    7. Moving an Object in the Document
    8. Date Methods
17. 14. Applied JavaScript
    1. Using Sliding Menus
    2. Adding Pull-Down Menus
    3. A Slideshow with Captions
    4. A Silly Name Generator
    5. A Bar Graph Generator
    6. Style Sheet Switcher
18. 15. Introducing Ajax
    1. Ajax: Pinning It Down
    2. Reading Server Data
    3. Parsing Server Data
    4. Refreshing Server Data
    5. Previewing Links with Ajax
    6. Auto-Completing Form Fields
19. 16. Ajax Toolkits
    1. Dragging and Dropping Page Elements
    2. Adding a Calendar to Your Page
    3. Adding a 2-up Calendar to Your Page
    4. Using the Container Utility
    5. Adding Animation Effects
    6. Implementing the Logger Control for Debugging
20. 17. Bookmarklets
    1. Your First Bookmarklet
    2. Changing a Page’s Background Color
    3. Changing a Page’s Styles
    4. Web-safe Colors
    5. Word Lookups
    6. Viewing Images
    7. Displaying ISO Latin Characters
    8. Converting RGB Values to Hex
    9. Converting Values
    10. A Bookmarklet Calculator
    11. Validating Pages
21. A. JavaScript Genealogy and Reference
    1. JavaScript Versions
       1. Netscape’s JavaScript
       2. Microsoft’s JScript
       3. AOL
    2. ECMAScript
    3. Browsers and JavaScript
    4. Object Flowchart
    5. The Big Object Table
22. B. JavaScript Reserved Words
23. C. Cascading Style Sheets Reference
24. D. Where to Learn More
    1. Finding Help on the Web
       1. Mozilla sites
       2. Core JavaScript Guide 1.5
       3. Core JavaScript Reference 1.5
       4. Using Web Standards in Your Web Pages
       5. Venkman, the Mozilla JavaScript debugger
       6. Other great JavaScript sites
       7. Microsoft’s Scripting Languages page
       8. Yahoo! User Interface Library
       9. Yahoo! JavaScript Developer Center
       10. Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
       11. QuirksMode
       12. Web Standards Project’s DOM Scripting Task Force
       13. Weblogs
       14. DOM Scripting: The Blog
       15. Ajaxian
       16. Yahoo! User Interface Blog
       17. JavaScript World Scripting Forums
       18. JavaScript Usenet Newsgroup
    2. Books
       1. JavaScript, The Definitive Guide
       2. JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook
       3. The JavaScript Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks
       4. Ajax in Action
       5. ppk on JavaScript
       6. Head Rush Ajax