JavaScript Bible - Softcover

Goodman, Danny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764533428 ISBN 13: 9780764533426

Publisher: Wiley, 2001

Synopsis

Greatly enhanced and updated from the third edition, this is the title any JavaScripter cannot afford to be without! JavaScript Bible, 4th Edition covers the new powerful functionality JavaScript will gain with the release of new revs of Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator. This book features essential new JS information, additional ready-to-use JavaScript applications, and scores of additional JavaScripts and Web page routines. As with the last edition, this book will bring non-technical professionals, including casual programmers and scripters, painlessly up to speed on all aspects of mastering JavaScript, including programming fundamentals, JavaScript language elements, and how to use them effectively, and how to easily and efficiently add powerful new functionality to HTML documents and Java applets.

About this title

Review

Aimed at the HTML designer with or without previous programming experience, the JavaScript Bible, Fourth Edition, brings a popular text up to date with a full tour of using JavaScript with all of today's Web browsers. Smart, very approachable, and filled with many useful tips, this book can put JavaScript development into the reach of just about anyone.

After presenting a solid tour of basic programming in JavaScript, the book centers in on the issues of developing JavaScript applications for real browsers. This means truly comprehensive coverage of the document object model (DOM), HTML, window and frame objects, forms, and style sheets that are available today. In about 1,000 pages (and almost 30 chapters), you learn what's available in today's JavaScript standard with a reference listing every object, API, and property, plus tips on how to use each feature. All this material makes this text an extremely worthwhile desktop reference for everyday JavaScript development. In particular, we liked that support (or lack thereof) for every feature is clearly documented across the full range of today's browsers from Netscape Navigator 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 to Internet Explorer 3 through 5.5.

Later chapters move toward the JavaScript language itself, with material on strings, math functions, and dates. The author discusses techniques for adapting JavaScript to particular browsers as well as providing cross-browser support where appropriate. Short exercises end each chapter, and the book presents sample solutions in an appendix. Additional CD-ROM chapters move beyond the whopping 1,200 pages of printed material.

In all, the author's patient, clear writing style and real-world advice for creating great-looking Web pages with JavaScript make this title a winner. Readers of previous editions of the JavaScript Bible will appreciate the updated focus on current browsers. For anyone who wants to learn JavaScript for the first time, this edition is arguably an unbeatable choice. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered:

• Introduction to JavaScript and HTML
• Targeting different browsers (with DHTML, style sheets, and other features)
• Basic JavaScript language tutorial (including variables, operators, expressions, flow control, forms, and built-in APIs)
• Script tags
• Error handling
• Arrays
• Window and document objects
• Form processing with JavaScript
• Tutorial and reference for the String, Math, and Date classes
• Frames
• Images (including rollover support)
• Comprehensive JavaScript reference
• ECMAScript
• Detecting different browsers
• Document object model (DOM) for Netscape 2 through 6 and IE 3 through 5
• Generic HTML objects
• Window and frame objects
• Location and history objects
• Document and body objects
• Body text objects
• HTML directives
• Link and anchor objects
• Image and map objects
• Form and form control objects
• Working with buttons and text in HTML forms
• Select and option elements
• Table and list objects
• Netscape Navigator and environment objects
• Event objects
• Style sheet reference
• Positioned objects
• JavaScript operators
• Functions and custom objects
• Sample programming exercises and answers

From the Back Cover

If JavaScript can do it, you can do it too ... Create Web pages brimming with dynamic content. Engage your page 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. With the expert advice of Danny Goodman, today's premier JavaScript authority, you'll learn the best ways to bring your pages to life. Writing with his trademark clarity and verve, Goodman shares his vast experience and insight on every aspect of client-side JavaScript. From beginner to advanced, this extensively revised and expanded new edition has the information you've been searching for. Inside, you'll find complete coverage of JavaScript

• Get up to speed fast on JavaScript basics with a tutorial tailored for newcomers
• Create scripts for mouse rollover effects and powerful client-side form validation
• Master JavaScript and DOM concepts with Danny's exclusive interactive workbench: The Evaluator
• Apply the latest JavaScript 1.5 exception handling and custom object techniques
• Implement cross-browser Dynamic HTML applications for MSIE 5.5 and Navigator 6
• Develop deployment strategies that best suit your content goals and target audience

CD-ROM includes:

• A searchable e-version of the book
• Nearly 300 ready-to-run scripts from the book
• Plus the full version of WebSpice Objects, a demo of BBEdit, and TextPad shareware

"This book is a must-have for any Web developer or programmer." — Thoma Lile, President, Kanis Technologies, Inc. "JavaScript Bible is the definitive resource in JavaScript programming. I am never more than three feet from my copy." — Steve Reich, CEO, Page Coders www.hungryminds.com System Requirements: PC running Windows 95 or later, Windows NT 4 or later; Power Macintosh running System 7.6 or later. See Appendix E for details and complete system requirements.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0764533428
• ISBN 13: 9780764533426
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 1248