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 (Relation to other languages)
• Hello World!
• Placing the Code

Core Language

• Lexical Structure
  • Automatic semicolon insertion (ASI)
  • Reserved Words
• Variables and Types
  • Numbers
  • Strings
  • Dates
  • Arrays
  • Regular Expressions
• Operators
• Control Structures
• Functions
  • Anonymous Functions
• Object-Based Programming
  • Objects
  • Constructors and Prototypes
  • Inheritance
  • Access Control
• Closures
• 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

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

Similar projects

• JavaScript on Wikia