JavaScript

This book applies to version 1.6 and later of JavaScript. Multiple versions of JavaScript are covered in this book.

This book is a guide to JavaScript, a scripting language widely used in web pages and web applications such as email applications. JavaScript is not to be confused with Java, which is quite a separate language for creating stand-alone applications.

Welcome

• Introduction
• First Program
• Placing the Code

Core Language

• Lexical Structure
  • Reserved Words
• Variables and Types
  • Numbers
  • Strings
  • Dates
  • Arrays
  • Regular Expressions
• Operators
• Control Structures
• Functions and Objects (Object Oriented Programming)

  Anonymous Functions

  Constructors and Prototypes

  Inheritance

  Access Control

• Debugging
• Optimization

Document Object Model and Dynamic Websites

• Runtime Document Manipulation
  • Finding Elements
  • Adding Elements
  • Changing Elements
  • Removing Elements
  • Changing Element Styles
• Event Handling
• W3C Event Handlers
• Working with the Mouse
• Forms
• Images
• Cookies
• Design Mode
• Bookmarklets

Client-Server Programming with AJAX

• XMLHttpRequest
• Handling HTML
• Handling JSON
• Handling XML
• Working With Files

Miscellaneous

• JScript in Microsoft WSH

Appendices

• Index
• Links
• Useful Software Tools
• History of JavaScript
• Best Practices
• Code Structuring
• Contributors

Related books

• Authoring Webpages
• Web Development
• Programming Ajax
• ActionScript
• HyperText Markup Language
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Coding Cookbook: JavaScript