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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.
- Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time.
- Page for page, the best content and value around.
- Companion Web site at www.javascriptworld.com offers sample scripts, updates, and more!
Synopsis
This task-based, visual reference guide has been fully revised. It uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to give beginning and intermediate Web designers what they need to know to learn JavaScript. Readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the programming language, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. In this updated seventh edition, readers will find new information on Ajax design and modern coding techniques.
About the Author
Tom Negrino is the author of dozens of books including
Visual QuickStart Guides covering Macromedia Contribute and Keynote, and
Visual QuickProject Guides on upgrading to Mac OS X Tiger, Keynote, and PowerPoint.
Dori Smith is the author of Java for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, publisher of the Wise-Women’s Web community, and a member of the Web Standards Project. Together they’ve written the best-selling Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, authored numerous print and online articles, and maintain the Backup Brain weblog.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Getting Acquainted with JavaScript
Chapter 2 Start Me Up!
Chapter 3 Your First Web App
Chapter 4 Working with Images
Chapter 5 Frames, Frames, and More Frame
Chapter 6 Working with Windows
Chapter 7 Form Handling
Chapter 8 Forms and Regular Expressions
Chapter 9 Handling Events
Chapter 10 JavaScript and Cookies
Chapter 11 Objects and the DOM
Chapter 12 Making Your Pages Dynamic
Chapter 13 Introducing Ajax
Chapter 14 Ajax Toolkits
Chapter 15 Applied JavaScript
Chapter 16 Designing With Ajax
Chapter 17 Bookmarklets
Appendix A JavaScript Genealogy and Reference
Appendix B JavaScript Reserved Words
Appendix C Cascading Style Sheets Reference
Appendix D Where to Learn More
Index