Synopsis
If JavaScript can do it, you can do it too...
Create Web pages brimming with dynamic content. Engage your site visitors with programmed style sheets that respond instantly to user interaction. Take charge of your user interface by controlling CSS, plug-ins, Java™ applets, and even XML data. Premier JavaScript authority Danny Goodman teams up with developer/inventor Michael Morrison to help you bring your pages to life, whether you’re a beginner or a JavaScript pro. You’ll find what you need in this extensively revised edition -- an updated, standards-intensive tutorial for newcomers, and plenty of advanced detail for veterans.
Inside, you’ll find complete coverage of JavaScript
- Get up to speed fast on JavaScript basics with an updated tutorial tailored for newcomers
- Master JavaScript and DOM concepts with Danny Goodman’s exclusive interactive workbench, The Evaluator
- Apply scripting to Web standards -- XHTML, DOM, CSS, and XML -- to produce future-compatible pages
- Implement cross-browser dynamic HTML applications for MSIE 6, Mozilla™, Safari™, and other browsers
- Energize your content with custom objects, XML data, and other client-side techniques
- Learn in depth from hundreds of fully scripted example HTML pages
Bonus CD-ROM includes
- Full, searchable PDF version of the book
- 22 bonus chapters covering advanced DOM, XML, and JavaScript objects; dynamic HTML, data validation, plug-ins, and security; techniques for developing and debugging
- professional Web-based applications, and more
- Nine complete JavaScript real-world applications
- Over 300 ready-to-run HTML documents demonstrating most of the Document Object Model and JavaScript terms in the book
Booknews
The author covers the basics of document objects and forms, control structures, functions, operators, Java applets, the differences between Netscape and Microsoft's implementations of JavaScript, cross- browser dynamic HTML applications, and debugging tools. Includes beginning and advanced tutorials, and appends answers to the tutorial exercises as well as a list of JavaScript Internet resources. The CD- ROM contains the complete JavaScript for the examples in the book and seven additional chapters with working applications, including calendars, forms, graphics, intelligent flags, and a decision helper. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.