JavaScript? Weekend Crash Course

Learn JavaScript fast! With JavaScript Weekend Crash Course, you can get up to speed programming JavaScript applications in a single weekend! This book begins at the beginning and assumes no prior JavaScript experience. You'll learn the essentials of JavaScript from Friday evening through Sunday afternoon. JavaScript® Weekend Crash CourseTM......Page 1 Front Matter......Page 3 About the Author......Page 5 Credits......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 11 Contents at a Glance......Page 12 Contents......Page 14 Part I Friday Evening......Page 28 Getting to Know JavaScript......Page 29 Statements and Operators......Page 37 Flow of Control Statements......Page 47 How to Write JavaScript Functions......Page 61 Part I Review......Page 70 Part II —Saturday Morning......Page 73 Working with JavaScript Strings......Page 75 Working with JavaScript Arrays......Page 84 Understanding the Browser Object Model......Page 97 Working with the window Object......Page 106 Working with the document Object......Page 118 Reacting to Events......Page 130 Part II Review......Page 142 Part III -Saturday Afternoon......Page 144 Dynamically Creating an HTML Page......Page 145 Working with HTML Forms......Page 154 Working with HTML Controls......Page 163 Working with Images......Page 181 Validating Form Data......Page 192 Cooking up Cookies with JavaScript......Page 203 Part III Review......Page 217 Part IV Saturday Evening......Page 219 Understanding JavaScript Objects......Page 220 Creating and Using Methods......Page 231 Enhancing HTML with JavaScript Objects......Page 241 Dynamically Creating and Executing JavaScript......Page 250 Part IV Review......Page 260 Part V......Page 264 Working with Cascading Style Sheets......Page 265 Creating Dynamic HTML with JavaScript......Page 278 Working with Frames......Page 292 Working with Windows......Page 304 Improving the User Interface......Page 314 Working with Different Browsers......Page 325 Part V Review......Page 338 Part VI......Page 340 Working with Dates, Numbers, and Web Addresses......Page 341 Communicating with Server-Side Processes......Page 355 Supporting Multimedia......Page 367 Working with Java Applets......Page 381 Part VI Review......Page 387 Appenix A Answers to Part Reviews......Page 389 Appendix B What’s on the CD-ROM......Page 400 Index......Page 404 CD-ROM Installation Instructions......Page 427 Learn JavaScript fast! With __JavaScript Weekend Crash Course__, you can get up to speed programming JavaScript applications in a single weekend! This book begins at the beginning and assumes no prior JavaScript experience. You'll learn the essentials of JavaScript from Friday evening through Sunday afternoon. This book is for anyone who needs to learn how to create a JavaScript-based Web site. It includes a complete introduction to the language and examples of how to carry out common Web-programming tasks.