Beginning JavaScript, 3rd Edition

by Paul Wilton; Jeremy McPeak

• ISBN13: 9780470051511
• ISBN10: 0470051515
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: Wrox

Summary

With this up-to-date guide, you'll find everything you need to know in order to develop interactive, robust, and personalized pages using JavaScript. It takes you step by step through this powerful scripting language so you can begin enhancing your site right away and increase visits. You'll learn how to take advantage of native JavaScript objects, manipulate objects that are available to you in the latest browsers, use cookies, and jazz up your web pages with Dynamic HTML.

Author Biography

Paul Wilton started as a Visual Bacic applications programmer at the Ministry of Defense in the UK, then found himself pulled into the Net. Having joined an Intermet development company, he spent three years helping create Internet solutions. He's now running his own successful and rapidly growing company developing online holiday property reservation systems.

Jeremy McPeak began tinkering with web development as a hobby in 1998. Currently working in IT department of a school district, Jeremy has experience developing web solutions with JavaScript, PHP, and C#. He has written several online articles covering topics such as XSLT, WebForms, and C#. He is also co-author of Professional Ajax.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Introduction to JavaScript and the Web

Data Types and Variables

Decisions, Loops, and Functions

JavaScript--An Object-Based Language

Programming the Browser

HTML Forms--Interacting with the User

Windows and Frames

String Manipulation

Date, Time, and Timers

Common Mistakes, Debugging, and Error Handling

Storing Information: Cookies

Introduction to Dynamic HTML

Dynamic HTML in Modern Browsers

JavaScript and XML

Using ActiveX and Plug-Ins with JavaScript

Ajax and Remote Scripting

Exercise Solutions

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