Table Of ContentVisual QuickStart Guide JavaScript and Ajax for the Web, Sixth Edition
Visual QuickStart Guide JavaScript and Ajax for the Web, Sixth Edition
By Tom Negrino, Dori Smith
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Publisher: Peachpit Press
Pub Date: August 28, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-321-43032-8
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-321-43032-8
Pages: 512
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Need to learn JavaScript fast? This best-selling reference's visual format and step-by-step, task-based
instructions will have you up and running with JavaScript in no time. In this completely updated edition of our
best-selling guide to JavaScript, leading Web and computing experts Tom Negrino and Dori Smith use crystal-
clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's JavaScript essentials. Along the way, you'll
find extensive coverage of Ajax and XML techniques, current browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox), and more. Visual
QuickStart Guide--the quick and easy way to learn!
Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through JavaScript and show you what to do.
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Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time.
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Page for page, the best content and value around.
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Companion Web site at www.javascriptworld.com offers sample scripts, updates, and more!
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Visual QuickStart Guide JavaScript and Ajax for the Web, Sixth Edition
By Tom Negrino, Dori Smith
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Publisher: Peachpit Press
Pub Date: August 28, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-321-43032-8
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-321-43032-8
Pages: 512
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Introduction
Chapter 1. Getting Acquainted with JavaScript
What JavaScript Is
JavaScript Isn't Java
Where JavaScript Came From
What JavaScript Can Do
What JavaScript Can't Do
What Is Ajax?
The Snap-Together Language
Handling Events
Values and Variables
Assignments and Comparisons
Writing JavaScript-Friendly HTML
What Tools to Use?
Chapter 2. Start Me Up!
Where to Put Your Scripts
About Functions
Using External Scripts
Putting Comments in Scripts
Alerting the User
Confirming a User's Choice
Prompting the User
Redirecting the User with a Link
Using JavaScript to Enhance Links
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Working with Referrer Pages
Chapter 3. Language Essentials
Around and Around with Loops
Passing a Value to a Function
Detecting Objects
Working with Arrays
Working with Functions That Return Values
Updating Arrays
Using Do/While Loops
Calling Scripts Multiple Ways
Using Multi-level Conditionals
Handling Errors
Chapter 4. Working with Images
Creating Rollovers
Creating More Effective Rollovers
Building Three-State Rollovers
Triggering Rollovers from a Link
Making Multiple Links Change a Single Rollover
Working with Multiple Rollovers
Creating Cycling Banners
Adding Links to Cycling Banners
Building Wraparound Slideshows
Displaying a Random Image
Cycling Images with a Random Start
Chapter 5. Frames, Frames, and More Frames
Keeping a Page out of a Frame
Forcing a Page into a Frame
Forcing a Site into a Frame
Setting a Target
Creating and Loading a Dynamic Frame
Sharing Functions between Frames
Storing Information in Frames
Loading Multiple Frames at Once
Working with Iframes
Loading Iframes with JavaScript
Chapter 6. Working with Browser Windows
Opening a New Window
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Loading Different Contents into a Window
Opening Multiple Windows
Opening Multiple Windows Simultaneously
Updating One Window from Another
Creating New Pages with JavaScript
Closing a Window
Opening Windows in a Specified Location
Moving Windows to a Specified Location
Chapter 7. Form Handling
Select-and-Go Navigation
Changing Menus Dynamically
Making Fields Required
Checking Fields against Each Other
Identifying Problem Fields
Putting Form Validation into Action
Working with Radio Buttons
Setting One Field with Another
Validating Zip Codes
Validating Email Addresses
Chapter 8. Forms and Regular Expressions
Validating an Email Address with Regular Expressions
Validating a File Name
Extracting Strings
Formatting Strings
Formatting and Sorting Strings
Formatting and Validating Strings
Replacing Elements using Regular Expressions
Chapter 9. Handling Events
Handling Window Events
Mouse Event Handling
Form Event Handling
Key Event Handling
Chapter 10. JavaScript and Cookies
Baking Your First Cookie
Reading a Cookie
Showing Your Cookies
Using Cookies as Counters
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Deleting Cookies
Handling Multiple Cookies
Displaying "New to You" Messages
Chapter 11. Introducing CSS
Saying It with Style
Styles with Class
Changing Fonts with CSS
Checking Your ID
Distinguished Links
Embedding Styles in Styles
Adding Background Images
Positioning Absolutely
Chapter 12. Objects and the DOM
About Node Manipulation
Adding Nodes
Deleting Nodes
Deleting Specific Nodes
Inserting Nodes
Replacing Nodes
Chapter 13. Making Your Pages Dynamic
Putting the Current Date into a Web Page
Working with Days
Customizing a Message for the Time of Day
Displaying Dates by Time Zone
Converting Military Time to A.M./P.M.
Creating a Countdown
Moving an Object in the Document
Date Methods
Chapter 14. Applied JavaScript
Using Sliding Menus
Adding Pull-Down Menus
A Slideshow with Captions
A Silly Name Generator
A Bar Graph Generator
Style Sheet Switcher
Chapter 15. Introducing Ajax
Ajax: Pinning It Down
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Reading Server Data
Parsing Server Data
Refreshing Server Data
Previewing Links with Ajax
Auto-Completing Form Fields
Chapter 16. Ajax Toolkits
Dragging and Dropping Page Elements
Adding a Calendar to Your Page
Adding a 2-up Calendar to Your Page
Using the Container Utility
Adding Animation Effects
Implementing the Logger Control for Debugging
Chapter 17. Bookmarklets
Your First Bookmarklet
Changing a Page's Background Color
Changing a Page's Styles
Web-safe Colors
Word Lookups
Viewing Images
Displaying ISO Latin Characters
Converting RGB Values to Hex
Converting Values
A Bookmarklet Calculator
Validating Pages
Appendix A. JavaScript Genealogy and Reference
JavaScript Versions
ECMAScript
Browsers and JavaScript
Object Flowchart
The Big Object Table
Appendix B. JavaScript Reserved Words
Appendix C. Cascading Style Sheets Reference
Appendix D. Where to Learn More
Finding Help on the Web
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Visual QuickStart Guide
JavaScript and Ajax for the Web, Sixth Edition
Tom Negrino and Dori Smith
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Copyright © 2007 by Tom Negrino and Dori Smith
Editor: Nancy Davis
Production Coordinator: Tracey Croom
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Dedication
To the memory of Bill Horwitz and Dorothy Negrino, because they loved learning.
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Special Thanks To
Special Thanks To
Big thanks to our editor Nancy Davis; her expert touch, warm compassion, and fierce dedication always
make our work better.
Thanks to Tracey Croom for her excellent production work.
Our heartfelt thanks to Danielle Foster, the book's compositor, who laid out the book under incredible time
pressure and pulled off the job with grace and aplomb.
We're grateful to Peachpit's Nancy Ruenzel for her support.
Thanks to our son Sean, for understanding when his parents got cranky, and for making himself dinner on
too many occasions.
We'd like to express our special thanks to all of the high school, college, and university instructors who
chose to use the previous editions of this book as a textbook for their classes.
Dori would like to thank the wonderful ladies in the W&S group for their loving kindness and virtual hugs.
And thanks are also due to the Wise-Women's Web Design community (http://www.wise-women.org) for
their patience, support, and inspiration as role models.
Music is the fuel for Tom's writing, and this book is no exception. The soundtrack and musical inspiration
for this sixth edition was graciously provided by lots of uncool bouncy pop music that will remain
unidentified, Wolfgang Mozart, Patty Griffin, Richard Shindell, KT Tunstall, Bruce Springsteen, Rosanne
Cash, REM, Antonio Vivaldi, Pandora Radio, and the shuffle feature in iTunes.
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