JavaScript and Ajax for the Web, Sixth

This completely revised best-seller is the fastest and easiest way to learn JavaScript!

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.

Introduction	p. xi
Getting Acquainted with JavaScript	p. 1
What JavaScript Is	p. 2
JavaScript Isn't Java	p. 3
Where JavaScript Came From	p. 5
What JavaScript Can Do	p. 6
What JavaScript Can't Do	p. 7
What Is Ajax?	p. 8
The Snap-Together Language	p. 11
Handling Events	p. 14
Values and Variables	p. 15
Assignments and Comparisons	p. 16
Writing JavaScript-Friendly HTML	p. 17
What Tools to Use?	p. 20
Start Me Up!	p. 21
Where to Put Your Scripts	p. 23
About Functions	p. 25
Using External Scripts	p. 26
Putting Comments in Scripts	p. 29
Alerting the User	p. 31
Confirming a User's Choice	p. 33
Prompting the User	p. 35
Redirecting the User with a Link	p. 37
Using JavaScript to Enhance Links	p. 39
Working with Referrer Pages	p. 42
Language Essentials	p. 45
Around and Around with Loops	p. 46
Passing a Value to a Function	p. 51
Detecting Objects	p. 53
Working with Arrays	p. 55
Working with Functions That Return Values	p. 57
Updating Arrays	p. 58
Using Do/While Loops	p. 60
Calling Scripts Multiple Ways	p. 62
Using Multi-level Conditionals	p. 64
Handling Errors	p. 67
Working with Images	p. 69
Creating Rollovers	p. 71
Creating More Effective Rollovers	p. 73
Building Three-State Rollovers	p. 81
Triggering Rollovers from a Link	p. 83
Making Multiple Links Change a Single Rollover	p. 86
Working with Multiple Rollovers	p. 88
Creating Cycling Banners	p. 92
Adding Links to Cycling Banners	p. 94
Building Wraparound Slideshows	p. 96
Displaying a Random Image	p. 99
Cycling Images with a Random Start	p. 101
Frames, Frames, and More Frames	p. 103
Keeping a Page out of a Frame	p. 105
Forcing a Page into a Frame	p. 107
Forcing a Site into a Frame	p. 108
Setting a Target	p. 112
Creating and Loading a Dynamic Frame	p. 113
Sharing Functions between Frames	p. 116
Storing Information in Frames	p. 119
Loading Multiple Frames at Once	p. 122
Working with Iframes	p. 124
Loading Iframes with JavaScript	p. 127
Working with Browser Windows	p. 129
Opening a New Window	p. 130
Loading Different Contents into a Window	p. 134
Opening Multiple Windows	p. 136
Opening Multiple Windows Simultaneously	p. 138
Updating One Window from Another	p. 140
Creating New Pages with JavaScript	p. 143
Closing a Window	p. 146
Opening Windows in a Specified Location	p. 149
Moving Windows to a Specified Location	p. 152
Form Handling	p. 155
Select-and-Go Navigation	p. 157
Changing Menus Dynamically	p. 162
Making Fields Required	p. 165
Checking Fields against Each Other	p. 170
Identifying Problem Fields	p. 172
Putting Form Validation into Action	p. 175
Working with Radio Buttons	p. 179
Setting One Field with Another	p. 182
Validating Zip Codes	p. 185
Validating Email Addresses	p. 189
Forms and Regular Expressions	p. 195
Validating an Email Address with Regular Expressions	p. 197
Validating a File Name	p. 202
Extracting Strings	p. 204
Formatting Strings	p. 207
Formatting and Sorting Strings	p. 211
Formatting and Validating Strings	p. 213
Replacing Elements using Regular Expressions	p. 216
Handling Events	p. 219
Handling Window Events	p. 220
Mouse Event Handling	p. 228
Form Event Handling	p. 236
Key Event Handling	p. 240
JavaScript and Cookies	p. 243
Baking Your First Cookie	p. 245
Reading a Cookie	p. 248
Showing Your Cookies	p. 249
Using Cookies as Counters	p. 251
Deleting Cookies	p. 254
Handling Multiple Cookies	p. 256
Displaying "New to You" Messages	p. 258
Introducing CSS	p. 263
Saying It with Style	p. 265
Styles with Class	p. 268
Changing Fonts with CSS	p. 270
Checking Your ID	p. 271
Distinguished Links	p. 273
Embedding Styles in Styles	p. 275
Adding Background Images	p. 277
Positioning Absolutely	p. 279
Objects and the DOM	p. 281
About Node Manipulation	p. 282
Adding Nodes	p. 284
Deleting Nodes	p. 286
Deleting Specific Nodes	p. 288
Inserting Nodes	p. 292
Replacing Nodes	p. 295
Making Your Pages Dynamic	p. 299
Putting the Current Date into a Web Page	p. 300
Working with Days	p. 302
Customizing a Message for the Time of Day	p. 303
Displaying Dates by Time Zone	p. 304
Converting Military Time to A.M./P.M.	p. 310
Creating a Countdown	p. 312
Moving an Object in the Document	p. 316
Date Methods	p. 319
Applied JavaScript	p. 321
Using Sliding Menus	p. 322
Adding Pull-Down Menus	p. 325
A Slideshow with Captions	p. 330
A Silly Name Generator	p. 334
A Bar Graph Generator	p. 340
Style Sheet Switcher	p. 348
Introducing Ajax	p. 357
Ajax: Pinning It Down	p. 359
Reading Server Data	p. 363
Parsing Server Data	p. 371
Refreshing Server Data	p. 375
Previewing Links with Ajax	p. 378
Auto-Completing Form Fields	p. 382
Ajax Toolkits	p. 389
Dragging and Dropping Page Elements	p. 391
Adding a Calendar to Your Page	p. 397
Adding a 2-up Calendar to Your Page	p. 401
Using the Container Utility	p. 407
Adding Animation Effects	p. 412
Implementing the Logger Control for Debugging	p. 415
Bookmarklets	p. 419
Your First Bookmarklet	p. 420
Changing a Page's Background Color	p. 425
Changing a Page's Styles	p. 426
Web-safe Colors	p. 428
Word Lookups	p. 430
Viewing Images	p. 433
Displaying ISO Latin Characters	p. 435
Converting RGB Values to Hex	p. 436
Converting Values	p. 438
A Bookmarklet Calculator	p. 439
Validating Pages	p. 441
JavaScript Genealogy and Reference	p. 443
JavaScript Versions	p. 444
ECMAScript	p. 447
Browsers and JavaScript	p. 449
Object Flowchart	p. 450
The Big Object Table	p. 455
JavaScript Reserved Words	p. 467
Cascading Style Sheets Reference	p. 471
Where to Learn More	p. 479
Finding Help on the Web	p. 480
Books	p. 486
Index	p. 489
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