Overview
The definitive source for professional JavaScript code.- 100+ task-oriented solutions—fully explained
- Move beyond the basics—master forms, validation, and cookies
- Manage hierarchical menus, regular expressions, XML, and Macromedia Flash integration
- Master security, stylesheets, browsers, DHTML, and DOM programming
- Real code for real clients... no "stupid JavaScript tricks"!
100+ real-world solutions fully explained.
Advanced JavaScript, Insights and Innovative Techniques provides an arsenal of powerful solutions to your most difficult Web development challenges. Dan Livingston dissects the code created by top JavaScript developers, revealing the tricks of the masters. From hierarchical menus to XML and Macromedia Flash integration, experience the cutting edge of JavaScript and discover the emerging techniques you need to solve real problems.
Advanced JavaScript, Insights and Innovative Techniques covers:
- Hierarchical menus: arrays, main functions, and behaviors
- FolderTree: complex hierarchical tree views of folders and documents
- Using regular expressions to extract data and replace text
- Using JavaScript to import and read XML
- Calling JavaScript from Flash movies
- Stylesheets, DHTML, and the Document Object Model (DOM)
- Mouseovers: image replacement, rollover functions, preloading, submenus, and more
- Dropdown menus, including navigation and altering menu content
- Form elements: text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, and text areas
- Validating user data, credit card ninput
- Dynamic table configurations: from basic report making to advanced techniques
- News scrollers, layer sliders, and other advanced applications
- Cookies, list manipulation, communicating among frames, swapping image maps, and much more
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewWouldn’t it be nice if there were a single source for tested JavaScript code that solves the most common problems you need to solve? With Advanced JavaScript, there is. Dan Livingston has brought together carefully annotated code and step-by-step guidance for everything from rollovers to reporting, cookies to DOM and XML.
Livingston, who wrote the handy beginner’s guides Essential JavaScript for Web Professionals and Essential CSS & DHTML for Web Professionals, has one of the friendliest voices we’ve seen in a programming author. That voice is especially well-suited to this book’s “How the Code Works” sections, in which Livingston offers detailed explanations of every significant element in a large block of code.
Along the way, you’ll find practical solutions and techniques for working with mouseovers; dynamically changing tables; swapping out image maps; altering lists; validating forms; and providing all kinds of navigation. You’ll learn how to make the most of events and the Document Object Model (in its many flavors); use regular expressions; build and manage hierarchical menus; and work with FolderTree, the widely praised “Windows Explorer”like JavaScript applet for “site outlining.” Whether you’re a casual or serious JavaScripter, you’ll find this book immensely valuable. Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.