JavaScript Bible, 6/e (Paperback)

* Updated to include the latest coverage of JavaScript, including how it fits into current Web browsers and applications as well as an exploration of its interaction with XML data in Ajax
* This mammoth reference-tutorial-nearly 1,300 pages long-serves as both a learning tool for building new JavaScript skills for newcomers as well as a detailed reference for seasoned JavaScript developers
* Key components of the book include a core language reference, document object reference, and coverage of Ajax, Firefox, and Mac OS X Widgets
* Examines how to write scripts for mouse rollover effects and powerful client-side form validations, master JavaScript and DOM concepts, apply the latest JavaScript exception handling and custom object techniques, and various deployment strategies that best suit end goals
* The amazing CD-ROM offers 23 advanced JavaScript bonus chapters, nine full applications, and 300 ready-to-run scripts

 

 

Table of Contents

1. JavaScript's Role in the World Wide Web and Beyond.

2. Authoring Challenges Amid the Browser Wars.

3. Your First JavaScript Script. JavaScript Tutorial.

4. Browser and Document Objects.

5. Scripts and HTML Documents.

6. Programming Fundamentals, Part I.

7. Programming Fundamentals, Part II.

8. Window and Document Objects.

9. Forms and Form Elements.

10. Strings, Math, and Dates.

11. Scripting Frames and Multiple Windows.

12. Images and Dynamic HTML. Document Objects Reference.

13. JavaScript Essentials.

14. Document Object Model Essentials.

15. Generic HTML Element Objects.

16. Window and Frame Objects.

17. Location and History Objects.

18. The Document and Body Objects.

19. Link and Anchor Objects.

20. Image, Area, Map, and Canvas Objects.

21. The Form and Related Objects.

22. Button Objects.

23. Text-Related Form Objects.

24. Select, Option, and File Upload Objects.

25. Event Objects.

26. Style Sheet and Style Objects.

27. AJAX and XML. JavaScript Core Language Reference.

28. The String Object.

29. The Math, Number, and Boolean Objects.

30. The Date Object.

31. The Array Object.

32. Control Structures and Exception Handling.

33. JavaScript Operators.

34. Functions and Custom Objects.

35. Global Functions and Statementsnus Chapters (on CD-ROM).

36. Body Text Objects.

37. HTML Directive Objects.

38. Table and List Objects.

39. The Navigator and Other Environment Objects.

40. Positioned Objects.

41. Embedded Objects.

42. The Regular Expression and RegExp Objects.

43. Data-Entry Validation.

44. Scripting Java Applets and Plug-Ins.

45. Debugging Scripts.

46. Security and Netscape Signed Scripts.

47. Cross-Browser Dynamic HTML Issues.

48. Internet Explorer Behaviors.

49. Application: Tables and Calendars.

50. Application: A Lookup Table.

51. Application: A "Poor Man's" Order Form.

52. Application: Outline-Style Table of Contents.

53. Application: Calculations and Graphics.

54. Application: Intelligent "Updated" Flags.

55. Application: Decision Helper.

56. Application: Cross-Browser DHTML Map Puzzle.

57. Application: Transforming XML Data..

58. Application: Creating Custom Google Maps.

Appendix A. JavaScript and Browser Object Quick Reference.

Appendix B. JavaScript Reserved Words.

Appendix C. Answers to Tutorial Exercises.

Appendix D JavaScript and DOM Internet Resources.

Appendix E What's on the CD-ROM.

Index.