JavaScript For Dummies - Softcover

Vander Veer, Emily A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764506331 ISBN 13: 9780764506338

Publisher: For Dummies, 2000

Synopsis

JavaScript has evolved quite a bit since its earliest days, from a relatively basic scripting language to a full-blown programming language in its own right. You can use JavaScript to create even more breathtakingly cool Web sites than ever before. You've probably seen Web sites with the following features:

• Images that change when your mouse moves over them
• Slide-show animations
• Input forms with pop-up messages that help you fill in the fields correctly
• Customized messages that welcome repeat visitors

All of these features (and much more) can be created with JavaScript. The thing is, JavaScript isn't easy to use. The JavaScript language itself has become more complex than its earlier incarnations – but that's where his new, improved, better-tasting edition of JavaScript For Dummies comes in! Even if you're not a crackerjack programmer, you can use the techniques and sample scripts in this book to create interactive, "intelligent" Web pages bursting with animated effects.

JavaScript For Dummies, 3rd Edition, gives you all you need to know to get started with JavaScript, plus some really cool JavaScript tricks, all explained from the point of view of the first-time JavaScript programmer. Here are just a few of the topics you'll find covered:

• Understanding JavaScript programming concepts
• Writing your first script
• Sampling browser cookies
• Making your pages interactive with button events and mouse rollovers
• Fiddling with forms and frames
• Automating your Web site
• Top Ten lists on online resources, common mistakes (and how to avoid them), and debugging your scripts
• Appendixes on JavaScript reserved words, color values, special characters, and the document object model reference

JavaScript For Dummies, 3rd Edition, also includes a CD-ROM with trial versions of popular Web creations tools, such as HomeSite, Dreamweaver, NetObjects ScriptBuilder, and SurfMap JavaScript.

So if you've worked with HTML before but want to add more flexibility and punch to your pages, or even if you've never written a stick of code in your life but are eager to hop on the JavaScript bandwagon, JavaScript For Dummies, 3rd Edition, is the book for you.

About this title

From the Publisher

JavaScript For Dummies, 3rd edition:

Explains JavaScript and how it differs from java, HTML, and other Web programming tools

Describes what users can do with JavaScript that they can't do with HTML

Outlines how JavaScript, the platform-independent scripting language, works with the latest versions of Netscape Navigator 5 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5

Includes an important overview of Object-Oriented Concepts and the JavaScript language

Shows users how to "team up" JavaScript with Java, C++, OpenDoc, and Common Gateway Interface (CGI) to create powerful multimedia applications

Describes how to build a quickie Web page using HTML tags

Shows users how to create a Java applet and run the applet from the Web page

Covers JavaScript's forms so users can easily enter data and receive feedback

Guides users as they write and debug their own JavaScript programs

BONUS CD-ROM INCLUDES:

Hot utility and sample programs, including Dreamweaver demo version, SurfMap JavaScript, Joust, NetObjects ScriptBuilder 3 trial version, Allaire HomeSite 4.5 trial version, Ant Tools Demo 3, ArtBeats Web Tools, BBEdit 4.5.1, HTML WebWeaver Lite, Paint Shop Pro 5 demo, and more!

From the Back Cover

Discover how to create dynamic, user-friendly Web sites!

Trial version of NetObjects ScriptBuilder on CD-ROM

Your key to creating dynamic, interactive web-based applications!

Explains how JavaScript works with the latest Web browser versions — in plain English!
Get with the program! Use this friendly guide to build powerful interactive Web site — without having to master a difficult programming language! Inside, you'll get tips for teaming JavaScript up with other technologies to create impressive multimedia applications, including user-friendly forms, cookies, alert-box messages, and more.

Discover how to:

• Punch up Web pages with forms, animation, and more
• Give users custom-designed Web Pages
• Get JavaScript support in Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer
• Test and debug scripts
• Test-drive the latest JavaScript tools

all this on bonus CD-ROM

• Trial versions of Web Weaver 98, HomeSite 4.5 for Windows, and NetObjects ScriptBuilder, HTML editing and scripting tools
• Trial versions of SurfMap JavaScript v2.1 and Dreamweaver 3.0 Web-authoring tools
• Evaluation version of PaintShop Pro

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Edition details

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0764506331
• ISBN 13: 9780764506338
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 408