Book Details:
by: Ellie Quigley, University of California, Santa Cruz Extension
ISBN-10: 0137054890
ISBN-13: 9780137054893
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2011
Format: Paper; 936 pp
Published: 10/05/2010
About the Book
This second edition of JavaScript by Example is really more than a new edition; it is a new book! So much has changed since the first edition in 2002, and now with the newfound popularity of Ajax, JavaScript is on a roll! Almost every personal computer has Java-Script installed and running and it is the most popular Web scripting language around, although it comes under different aliases, including Mocha, LiveScript, JScript, and ECMAScript. There are a lot of books out there dedicated to some aspect of the Java-Script language and if you are new to JavaScript, it would be difficult to know where to start. This book is a “one size fits all” edition, dedicated to those of you who need a balance between the technical side of the language and the fun elements, a book that addresses cross-platform issues, and a book that doesn’t expect that you are already a guru before you start. This edition explains how the language works from the most basic examples to the more complex, in a progression that seemlessly leads you from example to example until you have mastered the basics all the way to the more advanced topics such as CSS, the DOM, and Ajax.
Because I am a teacher first, I found that using my first edition worked well in the classroom, but I needed more and better examples to get the results I was looking for.
Many of my students have been designers but not programmers, or programmers who don’t understand design. I needed a text that would accommodate both without leaving either group bored or overwhelmed. This huge effort to modernize the first edition went way beyond where I had expected or imagined. I have learned much and hope that you will enjoy sharing my efforts to make this a fun and thorough coverage of a universally popular and important Web programming language.
Table of Contents
Preface xv
Chapter 1: Introduction to JavaScript 1
1.1 What JavaScript Is 1
1.2 What JavaScript Is Not 2
1.3 What JavaScript Is Used For 3
1.4 JavaScript and Its Place in a Web Page 4
1.5 What Is Ajax? 5
1.6 What JavaScript Looks Like 7
1.7 JavaScript and Its Role in Web Development 8
1.8 JavaScript and Events 10
1.9 Standardizing JavaScript and the W3C 12
1.10 What Browser? 15
1.11 Where to Put JavaScript 20
1.12 Validating Your Markup 24
1.13 What You Should Know 26
Chapter 2: Script Setup 29
2.1 The HTML Document and JavaScript 29
2.2 Syntactical Details 33
2.3 Generating HTML and Printing Output 37
2.4 About Debugging 40
2.5 Debugging Tools 41
2.6 JavaScript and Old or Disabled Browsers 47
2.7 What You Should Know 50
Chapter 3: The Building Blocks: Data Types, Literals, and Variables 53
3.1 Data Types 53
3.2 Variables 59
3.3 Constants 67
3.4 Bugs to Watch For 69
3.5 What You Should Know 70
Chapter 4: Dialog Boxes 73
4.1 Interacting with the User 73
4.2 What You Should Know 80
Chapter 5: Operators 83
5.1 About JavaScript Operators and Expressions 83
5.2 Types of Operators 88
5.3 Number, String, or Boolean? Data Type Conversion 112
5.4 Special Operators 119
5.5 What You Should Know 120
Chapter 6: Under Certain Conditions 123
6.1 Control Structures, Blocks, and Compound Statements 123
6.2 Conditionals 123
6.3 Loops 131
6.4 What You Should Know 140
Chapter 7: Functions 143
7.1 What Is a Function? 143
7.2 Debugging Techniques 166
7.3 What You Should Know 172
Chapter 8: Objects 175
8.1 What Are Objects? 175
8.2 Classes and User-Defined Functions 182
8.3 Object Literals 187
8.4 Manipulating Objects 191
8.5 Extending Objects with Prototypes 196
8.6 What You Should Know 210
Chapter 9: JavaScript Core Objects 213
9.1 What Are Core Objects? 213
9.2 Array Objects 213
9.3 Array Methods 227
9.4 The Date Object 234
9.5 The Math Object 241
9.6 What You Should Know 267
Chapter 10: It’s the BOM! Browser Objects 271
10.1 JavaScript and the Browser Object Model 271
10.2 What You Should Know 325
Chapter 11: Working with Forms and Input Devices 327
11.1 The Document Object Model and the Legacy DOM 0 327
11.2 The JavaScript Hierarchy 328
11.3 About HTML Forms 334
11.4 JavaScript and the form Object 341
11.5 Programming Input Devices (Controls) 372
11.6 What You Should Know 409
Chapter 12: Working with Images (and Links) 413
12.1 Introduction to Images 413
12.2 Reviewing Links 417
12.3 Working with Imagemaps 422
12.4 Resizing an Image to Fit the Window 438
12.5 Introduction to Slideshows 441
12.6 Animation and Timers 449
12.7 What You Should Know 452
Chapter 13: Handling Events 455
13.1 Introduction to Event Handlers 455
13.2 The Inline Model for Handling Events 455
13.3 Handling a Window or Frame Event 465
13.4 Handling Mouse Events 474
13.5 Handling Link Events 481
13.6 Handling a Form Event 482
13.7 The event Object 499
13.8 The Scripting Model for Handling Events 517
13.9 What You Should Know 523
Chapter 14: Introduction to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) with JavaScript 527
14.1 What Is CSS? 527
14.2 What Is a Style Sheet? 527
14.3 CSS Program Structure 530
14.4 Common Style Sheet Properties 532
14.5 Types of Style Sheets 550
14.6 The External Type with a Link 555
14.7 Creating a Style Class 558
14.8 The ID Selector and the ID Attribute 564
14.9 Overriding or Adding a Style with the <span> Tag 566
14.10 Positioning Elements and Layers 572
14.11 Where Does JavaScript Fit In? 585
14.12 What You Should Know 609
Chapter 15: The W3C DOM and JavaScript 611
15.1 The W3C DOM 611
15.2 How the DOM Works with Nodes 612
15.3 Nodes 613
15.4 Walking with the DOM 618
15.5 DOM Inspectors 621
15.6 Methods to Shorten the DOM Walk 622
15.7 Modifying the DOM (Appending, Copying, and Removing Nodes) 629
15.8 Event Handling and the DOM 661
15.9 Event Listeners with the W3C Model 668
15.10 Unobtrusive JavaScript 682
15.11 What You Should Know 690
Chapter 16: Cookies 695
16.1 What Are Cookies? 695
16.2 Creating a Cookie with JavaScript 701
16.3 What You Should Know 714
Chapter 17: Regular Expressions and Pattern Matching 717
17.1 What Is a Regular Expression? 717
17.2 Creating a Regular Expression 719
17.3 String Methods Using Regular Expressions 727
17.4 Getting Control–The Metacharacters 733
17.5 Form Validation with Regular Expressions 765
17.6 What You Should Know 795
Chapter 18: An Introduction to Ajax (with JSON) 797
18.1 Why Ajax? 797
18.2 Why Is Ajax Covered Last? 798
18.3 The Steps for Creating Ajax Communication 799
18.4 Putting It All Together 812
18.5 Ajax and JSON 834
18.6 Debugging Ajax with Firebug 848
Index 855
About the Author
Ellie Quigley has been teaching scripting languages in Silicon Valley for more than twenty years. Her Perl and Shell Programming classes at the University of Santa Cruz Extension program have become part of Silicon Valley lore. In addition, she teaches at leading companies, including NetApp, National Semiconductor, Juniper Networks, and many others. Her best-selling books include UNIX® Shells by Example, Fourth Edition (Prentice Hall, 2005), and Perl by Example, Fourth Edition (Prentice Hall, 2008).
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