JavaScript and Ajax for the Web Visual QuickStart Guide

by Negrino, Tom; Smith, Dori

• ISBN13: 9780321564085
• ISBN10: 0321564081
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-14
• Publisher: Peachpit Pr

Summary

This task-based, visual reference guide has been fully revised. It uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to give beginning and intermediate Web designers what they need to know to learn JavaScript. Readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the programming language, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. In this updated seventh edition, readers will find new information on Ajax design and modern coding techniques.

Author Biography

Tom Negrino is the author of dozens of books including Visual QuickStart Guide s covering Keynote and Contribute, and Visual QuickProject Guides on PowerPoint, Quicken, and upgrading Mac OS X Dori Smith is the author of Java 2: Visual QuickStart Guide. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, publisher of the Wise-Women's Web community, and a member of the Web Standards Project. Together they've written six editions of the best-selling JavaScript Ajax for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, several best-selling editions of Dreamweaver: Visual QuickStart Guide, and numerous print and online articles. They also publish the Backup Brain weblog

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xiii
Getting Acquainted with JavaScript	p. 1
What JavaScript Is	p. 2
JavaScript Isn't Java	p. 3
Where JavaScript Came From	p. 5
What JavaScript Can Do	p. 6
What JavaScript Can't Do	p. 7
What Is Ajax?	p. 8
The Snap-Together Language	p. 11
Handling Events	p. 14
Values and Variables	p. 15
Writing JavaScript-Friendly HTML	p. 17
What Tools to Use?	p. 20
Start Me Up!	p. 21
Where to Put Your Scripts	p. 23
About Functions	p. 25
Using External Scripts	p. 26
Putting Comments in Scripts	p. 29
Alerting the User	p. 31
Confirming a User's Choice	p. 33
Prompting the User	p. 35
Redirecting the User with a Link	p. 37
Using JavaScript to Enhance Links	p. 39
Using Multi-level Conditionals	p. 44
Handling Errors	p. 47
Your First Web App	p. 49
Around and Around with Loops	p. 50
Passing a Value to a Function	p. 55
Detecting Objects	p. 57
Working with Arrays	p. 59
Working with Functions That Return Values	p. 61
Updating Arrays	p. 62
Using Do/While Loops	p. 64
Calling Scripts Multiple Ways	p. 66
Combining JavaScript and CSS	p. 68
Checking State	p. 71
Working with String Arrays	p. 77
Working with Images	p. 81
Creating Rollovers	p. 83
Creating More Effective Rollovers	p. 85
Building Three-State Rollovers	p. 93
Triggering Rollovers from a Link	p. 95
Making Multiple Links Change a Single Rollover	p. 98
Working with Multiple Rollovers	p. 100
Creating Cycling Banners	p. 104
Adding Links to Cycling Banners	p. 106
Building Wraparound Slideshows	p. 108
Displaying a Random Image	p. 111
Cycling Images with a Random Start	p. 113
Frames, Frames, and More Frames	p. 115
Keeping a Page out of a Frame	p. 117
Forcing a Page into a Frame	p. 119
Forcing a Site into a Frame	p. 120
Setting a Target	p. 125
Creating and Loading a Dynamic Frame	p. 126
Sharing Functions between Frames	p. 129
Loading Multiple Frames at Once	p. 133
Working with Iframes	p. 135
Loading Iframes with JavaScript	p. 138
Working with Windows	p. 139
Opening a New Window	p. 140
Loading Different Contents into a Window	p. 144
Opening Multiple Windows	p. 146
Updating One Window from Another	p. 148
Closing a Window	p. 151
Putting Windows in Their Place	p. 154
Form Handling	p. 157
Select-and-Go Navigation	p. 159
Changing Menus Dynamically	p. 164
Making Fields Required	p. 167
Checking Fields against Each Other	p. 172
Identifying Problem Fields	p. 174
Putting Form Validation into Action	p. 177
Working with Radio Buttons	p. 181
Setting One Field with Another	p. 184
Validating Zip Codes	p. 187
Validating Email Addresses	p. 191
Forms and Regular Expressions	p. 197
Validating an Email Address with Regular Expressions	p. 199
Validating a File Name	p. 204
Extracting Strings	p. 206
Formatting Strings	p. 209
Formatting and Sorting Strings	p. 213
Formatting and Validating Strings	p. 215
Replacing Elements using Regular Expressions	p. 218
Handling Events	p. 221
Handling Window Events	p. 222
Mouse Event Handling	p. 230
Form Event Handling	p. 238
Key Event Handling	p. 242
JavaScript and Cookies	p. 245
Baking Your First Cookie	p. 247
Reading a Cookie	p. 251
Showing Your Cookies	p. 252
Using Cookies as Counters	p. 254
Deleting Cookies	p. 257
Handling Multiple Cookies	p. 259
Displaying "New to You" Messages	p. 261
Objects and the DOM	p. 267
About Node Manipulation	p. 268
Adding Nodes	p. 270
Deleting Nodes	p. 272
Deleting Specific Nodes	p. 274
Inserting Nodes	p. 278
Replacing Nodes	p. 281
Writing Code with Object Literals	p. 285
Making Your Pages Dynamic	p. 291
Putting the Current Date into a Web Page	p. 292
Working with Days	p. 294
Customizing a Message for the Time of Day	p. 295
Displaying Dates by Time Zone	p. 296
Converting 24-Hour to 12-Hour Time	p. 302
Creating a Countdown	p. 304
Hiding and Displaying Layers	p. 308
Moving an Object in the Document	p. 311
Date Methods	p. 313
Introducing Ajax	p. 315
Ajax: Pinning It Down	p. 317
Reading Server Data	p. 321
Parsing Server Data	p. 329
Refreshing Server Data	p. 336
Getting Data From a Server	p. 339
Previewing Links with Ajax	p. 343
Auto-Completing Form Fields	p. 347
Ajax Toolkits	p. 353
Dragging and Dropping Page Elements	p. 355
Adding a Calendar to Your Page	p. 361
Adding a 2-up Calendar to Your Page	p. 365
Using the Container Utility	p. 371
Adding Animation Effects	p. 376
Implementing the Logger Control for Debugging	p. 379
Applied JavaScript	p. 383
Using Sliding Menus	p. 384
Adding Pull-Down Menus	p. 387
Enhancing Pull-down Menus	p. 391
A Slideshow with Captions	p. 395
A Silly Name Generator	p. 399
A Bar Graph Generator	p. 405
Style Sheet Switcher	p. 413
Designing With Ajax	p. 423
Highlighting New Elements	p. 424
Creating Accordion Menus	p. 429
Creating Smarter Dialogs	p. 432
Striping Tables	p. 434
Sorting Tables	p. 437
Bookmarklets	p. 443
Your First Bookmarklet	p. 444
Resetting a Web Page's Background	p. 450
Changing a Page's Styles	p. 451
Word Lookups	p. 454
Viewing Images	p. 457
Displaying ISO Latin Characters	p. 459
Converting RGB Values to Hex	p. 462
Converting Values	p. 464
A Bookmarklet Calculator	p. 465
Shortening URLs	p. 467
Validating Pages	p. 468
Mailing Pages	p. 469
Resizing Pages	p. 470
JavaScript Genealogy and Reference	p. 471
JavaScript Versions	p. 472
ECMAScript	p. 475
Object Flowchart	p. 477
The Big Object Table	p. 483
JavaScript Reserved Words	p. 495
Cascading Style Sheets Reference	p. 499
Where to Learn More	p. 507
Finding Help Online	p. 508
Books	p. 514
Index	p. 515
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