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JavaScript for the World Wide Web : Visual QuickStart Guide

by: Negrino, Tom; Smith, Dori

JavaScript for the World Wide Web : Visual QuickStart Guide

by: Negrino, Tom; Smith, Dori

ISBN 13:
9780321194398
ISBN 10:
032119439X
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 07/14/2003
Publisher: Peachpit Pr
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bull; Prior best-selling editions taught JavaScript to a generation. bull; Authors are Visual QuickStart veterans and leading forces within the Web community. bull; Loaded with tips and techniques drawn from authors' years of experience.

Introduction	p. xi
Getting Acquainted with JavaScript	p. 1
What JavaScript Is	p. 2
JavaScript Isn't Java	p. 3
Where JavaScript Came From	p. 4
What JavaScript Can Do	p. 5
What JavaScript Can't Do	p. 6
The Snap-together Language	p. 7
Handling Events	p. 9
Values and Variables	p. 10
Assignments and Comparisons	p. 11
What Tools to Use?	p. 12
Start Me Up!	p. 13
Where to Put Your Scripts	p. 15
Hiding Scripts from Old Browsers	p. 16
Putting Comments in Scripts	p. 17
Alerting the User	p. 18
Confirming a User's Choice	p. 20
Prompting the User	p. 22
Redirecting the User	p. 23
Redirecting the User with a Link	p. 25
Browser Detection	p. 26
Language Essentials	p. 29
Detecting Browser Plug-ins	p. 30
Around and Around with Loops	p. 32
Writing with Loops	p. 35
Using For/In Loops	p. 37
Using Do/While Loops	p. 39
Checking if Java Is Enabled	p. 41
Functions	p. 43
Using Multi-level Conditionals	p. 46
Working with Functions That Return Values	p. 48
Handling Errors	p. 50
Putting More than One Script on a Page	p. 52
Scrolling Status Bars	p. 54
Status Bar Messages	p. 57
Image Basics	p. 59
Creating Rollovers	p. 61
Creating More Effective Rollovers	p. 63
Putting Multiple Rollovers on a Page	p. 65
Triggering Rollovers from a Link	p. 67
Making Multiple Links Change a Single Rollover	p. 69
Working with Multiple Rollovers	p. 72
Using a Function to Code Multiple Images with a Single Rollover	p. 75
Using a Function to Code Multiple Rollovers	p. 77
More Fun with Images	p. 79
Creating Cycling Banners	p. 81
Creating Multiple Cycling Banners	p. 84
Making the Banner Cycling Wait for the User	p. 86
Adding Links to Cycling Banners	p. 87
Building Slideshows	p. 89
Building Wraparound Slideshows	p. 92
Displaying a Random Image	p. 94
Cycling Images with a Random Start	p. 96
Displaying Multiple Random Images	p. 97
Combining a Rollover with an Image Map	p. 99
Frames, Frames, and More Frames	p. 103
Keeping a Page out of a Frame	p. 105
Forcing a Page into a Frame	p. 106
Forcing a Site into a Frame	p. 108
Loading a Frame	p. 111
Creating and Loading a Dynamic Frame	p. 113
Sharing Functions Between Frames	p. 115
Storing Information in Frames	p. 118
Loading Multiple Frames at Once	p. 121
Browser Detection with Frames	p. 125
Working with Iframes	p. 127
Working with Browser Windows	p. 131
Opening a New Window	p. 132
Loading Different Contents into a Window	p. 134
Opening a New Window Using an Image Link	p. 136
Opening Multiple Windows	p. 138
Opening Multiple Windows Simultaneously	p. 140
Scrolling a Window	p. 142
Updating One Window from Another	p. 144
Creating New Pages with JavaScript	p. 146
Closing a Window	p. 148
Creating a Control Panel	p. 150
Positioning a Window on the Screen	p. 152
Displaying an Alert when a Window is Loaded	p. 154
Form Handling	p. 155
Verifying Passwords	p. 157
Using Images as Submit Buttons	p. 159
Select-and-Go Navigation	p. 163
Changing Menus Dynamically	p. 166
Selecting Menu Items	p. 170
Working with Radio Buttons	p. 173
Setting One Field with Another	p. 176
Validating Zip Codes	p. 180
Validating Email Addresses	p. 184
Forms and Regular Expressions	p. 193
Validating an Email Address with Regular Expressions	p. 195
Validating a File Name	p. 200
Extracting Strings	p. 203
Formatting Strings	p. 206
Formatting and Sorting Strings	p. 210
Formatting and Validating Strings	p. 212
Making Your Pages Dynamic	p. 215
Putting the Current Date into a Web Page	p. 216
Working with Days	p. 218
Customizing a Message for the Time of Day	p. 219
Displaying Dates by Time Zone	p. 220
Converting Military Time to AM/PM	p. 223
Creating a Countdown	p. 226
Working with Referrer Pages	p. 229
Writing Text into a Document on the Fly	p. 230
Date Methods	p. 233
Handling Events	p. 235
Handling Window Events	p. 236
Mouse Event Handling	p. 242
Form Event Handling	p. 249
Key Event Handling	p. 252
JavaScript and Cookies	p. 255
Baking Your First Cookie	p. 257
Reading a Cookie	p. 260
Showing Your Cookies	p. 261
Using Cookies as Counters	p. 263
Deleting Cookies	p. 265
Handling Multiple Cookies	p. 267
Displaying "New to You" Messages	p. 269
Introducing CSS	p. 273
Saying it with Style	p. 275
Styles with Class	p. 279
Changing Fonts with CSS	p. 282
Checking Your ID	p. 284
Styles and Spans	p. 287
Distinguished Links	p. 289
Positioning Absolutely	p. 291
Working with DHTML	p. 293
DHTML Browsers & "Standards"	p. 294
Moving an Object in Two Dimensions (Netscape 4.x only)	p. 295
Moving an Object in Two Dimensions (Internet Explorer Win/Mac)	p. 298
Moving an Object in Two Dimensions (Netscape 6+ only)	p. 300
Moving an Object in Two Dimensions (Cross-browser)	p. 303
Moving an Object in Three Dimensions (Netscape 4.x only)	p. 305
Moving an Object in Three Dimensions (Netscape 6+ only)	p. 308
Moving an Object in Three Dimensions (Cross-browser)	p. 310
Moving DHTML Text (Cross-browser)	p. 312
Modifying a DHTML Drop Shadow (IE Windows)	p. 314
Rotating a DHTML Shadow (IE Windows)	p. 316
Modifying a DHTML Glow (IE Windows)	p. 317
User Interface Design with JavaScript	p. 319
Pull-Down Menus	p. 320
Sliding Menus	p. 325
Tool Tips	p. 328
Click-Anywhere Form Fields	p. 332
Applied JavaScript	p. 335
Using an External .js File	p. 336
A Slideshow with Captions	p. 340
A Silly Name Generator	p. 343
Bar Graph Generator	p. 348
An Object-oriented Bar Graph Generator	p. 356
Style Sheet Switcher	p. 361
Manipulating Nodes	p. 371
About Node Manipulation	p. 372
Adding Nodes	p. 374
Deleting Nodes	p. 376
Deleting Specific Nodes	p. 378
Inserting Nodes	p. 381
Replacing Nodes	p. 384
Bookmarklets	p. 387
Your First Bookmarklet	p. 388
Changing a Page's Background Color	p. 392
Web-safe Colors	p. 393
Word Lookups	p. 395
Viewing Images	p. 397
Displaying ISO Latin Characters	p. 400
Converting RGB Values to Hex	p. 401
Converting Values	p. 403
A Bookmarklet Calculator	p. 404
Working with Visual Tools	p. 407
The Pros and Cons of Visual Tools	p. 408
Using Behaviors in Dreamweaver	p. 413
Flying Objects in Adobe GoLive	p. 417
Creating Pop-Up Menus in Fireworks	p. 420
Customizing Dreamweaver	p. 423
Debugging Common Errors	p. 427
The Built-in Debugging Aids	p. 428
JavaScript Debuggers	p. 429
Common Errors	p. 431
Following Variables While a Script is Running	p. 435
Viewing Variables in Another Window	p. 436
Writing Error Messages to Another Window	p. 438
JavaScript Genealogy and Reference	p. 441
JavaScript Versions	p. 442
ECMAScript	p. 445
Browsers and JavaScript	p. 446
Object Flowchart	p. 447
The Big Object Table	p. 451
JavaScript Reserved Words	p. 463
Cascading Style Sheets Reference	p. 467
Where to Learn More	p. 475
Finding Help on the Web	p. 476
Books	p. 481
Index	p. 483
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