Mastering JavaScript Premium Edition

What JavaScript Can Do, You Can Do

Mastering JavaScript Premium Edition is your ticket to the enormous power of the Web's dominant scripting language. Fully updated and expanded, this book teaches you everything, beginning with the basics and culminating with the tips and tricks that only professionals know. Regardless of your experience or particular JavaScript goals, you'll find the instruction you need to quickly master the techniques that matter to you and your website. Coverage includes

• Understanding the Document Object Model
• Using operators, statements, and functions
• Handling events
• Working with objects
• Debugging your scripts
• Processing forms
• Creating basic JavaScript components
• Adding search tools
• Developing e-commerce applications
• Programming games
• Writing cross-browser code
• Scripting plug-ins and ActiveX components
• Creating XML-based web applications
• Using LiveConnect to communicate with Java applets
• Using JavaScript with JavaServer Pages
• Securing your scripts
• Working with Windows Scripting Host
• Programming Rhino

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I Getting Started with JavaScript and JScript
Chapter 1 Learning the Fundamentals
Chapter 2 Introducing JavaScript and JScript
Chapter 3 Using Operators, Statements, and Functions
Chapter 4 Handling Events
Chapter 5 Working with Objects
Chapter 6 Debugging Your Scripts

Part II Programming the Document Object Model
Chapter 7 Creating Frames and Windows
Chapter 8 Processing Forms
Chapter 9 Using Hidden Fields and Cookies
Chapter 10 Working with Links
Chapter 11 Using Images
Chapter 12 Working with Styles and DHTML
Chapter 13 Using the W3C DOM Level 1

Part III Developing Components and Applications
Chapter 14 Creating Basic JavaScript Components
Chapter 15 Developing Animations and Slide Shows
Chapter 16 Building Tabbed Panels, Trees, and Menu Bars
Chapter 17 Developing Web Page Accessories
Chapter 18 Developing Search Tools
Chapter 19 Developing E-commerce Applications
Chapter 20 Game Programming

Part IV Working with XML-Capable Browsers
Chapter 21 Learning XML
Chapter 22 Displaying XML with Internet Explorer and Navigator
Chapter 23 Scripting XML
Chapter 24 Working with XSLT
Chapter 25 Creating XML-Based Web Applications
Chapter 26 Working with Browser-Specific XML Capabilities

Part V Communicating with Java, ActiveX, and Plug-Ins
Chapter 27 Communicating with Java Applets
Chapter 28 Scripting ActiveX Components
Chapter 29 Scripting Plug-Ins

Part VI Shell Programming
Chapter 30 Programming Rhino
Chapter 31 Working with Windows Scripting Host

Appendices
Appendix A Doing Math
Appendix B Using Regular Expressions
Appendix C ECMAScript (Rev 3) Object Reference
Appendix D DOM 0 Object Reference
Appendix E DOM 1 Object Reference
Appendix F Cascading Style Sheets