JavaScript Weekend Crash Course

✍ Scribed by Steven W. Disbrow

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 427
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Learn JavaScript fast! With JavaScript Weekend Crash Course, you can get up to speed programming JavaScript applications in a single weekend! This book begins at the beginning and assumes no prior JavaScript experience. You'll learn the essentials of JavaScript from Friday evening through Sunday afternoon.

✦ Table of Contents

JavaScript® Weekend Crash Course™......Page 1
Front Matter......Page 3
About the Author......Page 5
Credits......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Contents at a Glance......Page 12
Contents......Page 14
Part I Friday Evening......Page 28
Getting to Know JavaScript......Page 29
Statements and Operators......Page 37
Flow of Control Statements......Page 47
How to Write JavaScript Functions......Page 61
Part I Review......Page 70
Part II —Saturday Morning......Page 73
Working with JavaScript Strings......Page 75
Working with JavaScript Arrays......Page 84
Understanding the Browser Object Model......Page 97
Working with the window Object......Page 106
Working with the document Object......Page 118
Reacting to Events......Page 130
Part II Review......Page 142
Part III -Saturday Afternoon......Page 144
Dynamically Creating an HTML Page......Page 145
Working with HTML Forms......Page 154
Working with HTML Controls......Page 163
Working with Images......Page 181
Validating Form Data......Page 192
Cooking up Cookies with JavaScript......Page 203
Part III Review......Page 217
Part IV Saturday Evening......Page 219
Understanding JavaScript Objects......Page 220
Creating and Using Methods......Page 231
Enhancing HTML with JavaScript Objects......Page 241
Dynamically Creating and Executing JavaScript......Page 250
Part IV Review......Page 260
Part V......Page 264
Working with Cascading Style Sheets......Page 265
Creating Dynamic HTML with JavaScript......Page 278
Working with Frames......Page 292
Working with Windows......Page 304
Improving the User Interface......Page 314
Working with Different Browsers......Page 325
Part V Review......Page 338
Part VI......Page 340
Working with Dates, Numbers, and Web Addresses......Page 341
Communicating with Server-Side Processes......Page 355
Supporting Multimedia......Page 367
Working with Java Applets......Page 381
Part VI Review......Page 387
Appenix A Answers to Part Reviews......Page 389
Appendix B What’s on the CD-ROM......Page 400
Index......Page 404
CD-ROM Installation Instructions......Page 427