Synopses & Reviews
Learn to use these powerful tools together and build Web sites that work
If you want to build Web pages that offer real value to your site's visitors, JavaScript and AJAX are top tools for the job. Even if you're new to Web programming, this book helps you create sites any designer will admire. With easy-to-understand steps and an emphasis on free tools, you'll be able to jump right into building a site using the same techniques as the pros.
- Down to basics learn your way around JavaScript and choose an editor and test browser
Manage complexity use functions, arrays, and objects to create more sophisticated programs
Page magic discover how to control what happens on your pages, animate objects, and put pages in motion
Get beautiful Use the jQuery User Interface library to add sliders, tabbed interfaces, and custom dialogs to a site
Come clean with AJAX build AJAX requests into your programs, use jQuery, and work with AJAX data
Open the book and find:
- How to choose a test browser
How to discuss string concatenation with a straight face
Tips for debugging your code
How to add useful information to a dropdown list
Why AJAX connections should be asynchronous
The exciting possibilities of the jQuery library
How to use the Aptana editor
Online resources for JavaScript programmers
Synopsis
- Assuming no prior JavaScript experience, this book shows beginning users how to add JavaScript to their Web development toolbox, including how to design an interface and animations with JavaScript
- This hands-on reference walks readers through JavaScript, the popular programming language that uses scripts to create elements such as window pop-ups, Web form validation, and image changes on mouseover
- A new approach that also covers how JavaScript works in the Web 2.0 world with the Ajax programming method, new JavaScript strategies (scripting forms, designing an interface, and managing cookies), and more
Synopsis
JavaScript & Ajax For Dummiesprovides hands-on reference on the various uses of the JavaScript language as a Web design tool on its own and a Web dev tool as part of Ajax. The book's parts include:
- JavaScript 101: An introduction to the basics, including functions, objects, events, and correcting errors
- Scripting the Document Object Model: Handling the DOM and scripting documents, working with Windows, and scripting CSS
- JavaScript in a Web 2.0 World: JavaScript and how it works with AJAX, XML, and JSON
- Getting Practical in the Real World: Hands-on JavaScript strategies including scripting forms, designing an interface, animating, programming menus, and managing cookies
- The Part of Tens: The traditional For Dummiescloser that covers resources, browser quirks, debugging, and scripts to avoid
About the Author
Andy Harris is a lecturer in computer science at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis. He was instrumental in developing the university's certificate program in applied computer science and has taught courses in Web development as well as several programming languages.
Table of Contents
Introduction.Part I: Programming with JavaScript.
Chapter 1: Taking the Web to the Next Level.
Chapter 2: Writing Your First Program.
Chapter 3: Changing Program Behavior with Conditions.
Chapter 4: Loops and Debugging.
Chapter 5: Functions, Arrays, and Objects.
Part II: Using JavaScript to Enhance Your Pages.
Chapter 6: Talking to the Page.
Chapter 7: Getting Valid Input.
Chapter 8: Moving and Grooving.
Part III: Moving Up to AJAX.
Chapter 9: AJAX Essentials.
Chapter 10: Improving JavaScript and AJAX with jQuery.
Chapter 11: Animating jQuery.
Chapter 12: Using the jQuery User Interface Toolkit.
Chapter 13: Improving Usability with jQuery.
Chapter 14: Working with AJAX Data.
Part IV: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 15: Ten Amazing jQuery Plugins.
Chapter 16: Ten Great Resources.
Index.