Javascript for the world wide web

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Summary

This title aims to provide a quick and efficient route to learning JavaScript programming.

Author Notes

Veteran journalist and Mac guru Tom Negrino is the author of Macromedia Contribute for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide and numerous other Visual QuickStart guides, including (with Dori Smith ) the last three editions of this volume. Dori Smith is a programmer and journalist who, like Tom, has several Visual QuickStart Guides under her belt, including Java 2 for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide. Both authors are on the Steering Committee for the Web Standards Project.

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Library Journal Review

JavaScript's popularity shows no signs of waning, so libraries could benefit from up-to-date titles. A clear and cohesive guide recommended for beginners and all libraries, Visual QuickStart updates older editions with coverage of v.1.5, showing how to complete common tasks step by step, with typical and plentiful tips, screen shots, and tables. A companion web site (www.javascriptworld.com) at the time of this review included only scripts from the fourth edition but should soon be updated to include current cut-and-paste scripts and files. Appendixes address JavaScript "genealogy and reference," reserved words, CSS, and additional resources. Everything, also appropriate for beginners and all libraries, covers similar ground but with more background and fewer figures. Notes, cautions, sidebars, tables, and figures break up the text; appendixes provide quick references for HTML tags and JavaScript statements, classes, and objects. For intermediate to advanced users, Cookbook jumps right into coding examples. Each "recipe" contains a problem, solution, discussion, and useful See Also references; the book's coverage of common "how-to" questions ranges from concatenating strings to embedding XML data in web pages. Cookbook's discussion of both JavaScript and DHTML and clear explanations of common coding issues make it a fantastic reference for larger libraries. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Introduction	p. xi
Chapter 1 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
Chapter 2 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
Chapter 3 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
Chapter 4 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
Chapter 5 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
Chapter 6 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
Chapter 7 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
Chapter 8 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
Chapter 9 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
Chapter 10 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
Chapter 11 Handling Events	p. 235
Handling Window Events	p. 236
Mouse Event Handling	p. 242
Form Event Handling	p. 249
Key Event Handling	p. 252
Chapter 12 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
Chapter 13 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
Chapter 14 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
Chapter 15 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
Chapter 16 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
Chapter 17 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
Chapter 18 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
Chapter 19 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
Chapter 20 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
Appendix A 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
Appendix B JavaScript Reserved Words	p. 463
Appendix C Cascading Style Sheets Reference	p. 467
Appendix D Where to Learn More	p. 475
Finding Help on the Web	p. 476
Books	p. 481
Index	p. 483

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