Table of Contents

Learning JavaScript
By Shelley Powers
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Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: October 01, 2006
ISBN: 0-596-52746-2
Pages: 304

Table of Contents  | Index

		Copyright
		Preface
		Chapter 1.  Introduction and First Looks
			Section 1.1.  Twisted History: Specs and Implementations
			Section 1.2.  Cross-Browser Incompatibility and Other Common JavaScript Myths
			Section 1.3.  What You Can Do with JavaScript
			Section 1.4.  First Look at JavaScript: "Hello World!"
			Section 1.5.  The JavaScript Sandbox
			Section 1.6.  Accessibility and JavaScript Best Practices
		Chapter 2.  JavaScript Data Types and Variables
			Section 2.1.  Identifying Variables
			Section 2.2.  Scope
			Section 2.3.  Simple Types
			Section 2.4.  Constants: Named but Not Variables
			Section 2.5.  Questions
		Chapter 3.  Operators and Statements
			Section 3.1.  Format of a JavaScript Statement
			Section 3.2.  Simple Statements
			Section 3.3.  Conditional Statements and Program Flow
			Section 3.4.  The Conditional Operators
			Section 3.5.  The Logical Operators
			Section 3.6.  Advanced Statements: The Loops
			Section 3.7.  Questions
		Chapter 4.  The JavaScript Objects
			Section 4.1.  The Object Constructor
			Section 4.2.  The Number Object
			Section 4.3.  The String Object
			Section 4.4.  Regular Expressions and RegExp
			Section 4.5.  Purposeful Objects: Date and Math
			Section 4.6.  JavaScript Arrays
			Section 4.7.  Associative Arrays: The Arrays That Aren't
			Section 4.8.  Questions
		Chapter 5.  Functions
			Section 5.1.  Defining a Function: Let Me Count the Ways
			Section 5.2.  Callback Functions
			Section 5.3.  Functions and Recursion
			Section 5.4.  Nested Functions, Function Closure, and Memory Leaks
			Section 5.5.  Function As Object
			Section 5.6.  Questions
		Chapter 6.  Catching Events
			Section 6.1.  The Event Handler at DOM Level 0
			Section 6.2.  Questions
		Chapter 7.  Forms and JiT Validation
			Section 7.1.  Accessing the Form
			Section 7.2.  Attaching Events to Forms: Different Approaches
			Section 7.3.  Selection
			Section 7.4.  Radio Buttons and Checkboxes
			Section 7.5.  Input Fields and JiT Regular Expressions
			Section 7.6.  Questions
		Chapter 8.  The Sandbox and Beyond: Cookies, Connectivity, and Piracy
			Section 8.1.  The Sandbox
			Section 8.2.  All About Cookies
			Section 8.3.  Alternative Storage Techniques
			Section 8.4.  Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
			Section 8.5.  Questions
		Chapter 9.  The Basic Browser Objects
			Section 9.1.  BOM at a Glance
			Section 9.2.  The window Object
			Section 9.3.  Frames and Location
			Section 9.4.  history, screen, and navigator
			Section 9.5.  The all Collection, Inner/Outer HTML and Text, and Old and New Documents
			Section 9.6.  Something Old, Something New
			Section 9.7.  Questions
		Chapter 10.  DOM: The Document Object Model
			Section 10.1.  A Tale of Two Interfaces
			Section 10.2.  The DOM and Compliant Browsers
			Section 10.3.  The DOM HTML API
			Section 10.4.  Understanding the DOM: The Core API
			Section 10.5.  The DOM Core Document Object
			Section 10.6.  Element and Access in Context
			Section 10.7.  Modifying the Tree
			Section 10.8.  Questions
		Chapter 11.  Creating Custom JavaScript Objects
			Section 11.1.  The JavaScript Object and Prototyping
			Section 11.2.  Creating Your Own Custom JavaScript Objects
			Section 11.3.  Object Detection, Encapsulation, and Cross-Browser Objects
			Section 11.4.  Chaining Constructors and JS Inheritance
			Section 11.5.  One-Off Objects
			Section 11.6.  Advanced Error-Handling Techniques (try, throw, catch)
			Section 11.7.  What's New in JavaScript
			Section 11.8.  Questions
		Chapter 12.  Building Dynamic Web Pages: Adding Style to Your Script
			Section 12.1.  DHTML: JavaScript, CSS, and DOM
			Section 12.2.  Fonts and Text
			Section 12.3.  Position and Movement
			Section 12.4.  Size and Clipping
			Section 12.5.  Display, Visibility, and Opacity
			Section 12.6.  Questions
		Chapter 13.  Moving Outside the Page with Ajax
			Section 13.1.  Ajax: It's Not Only Code
			Section 13.2.  How Ajax Works
			Section 13.3.  Hello Ajax World!
			Section 13.4.  The Ajax Object: XMLHttpRequest and IE's ActiveX Objects
			Section 13.5.  Working with XMLor Not
			Section 13.6.  Google Maps
			Section 13.7.  Questions
		Chapter 14.  Good News: Juicy Libraries! Amazing Web Services! Fun APIs!
			Section 14.1.  Before Jumping In, A Word of Caution
			Section 14.2.  Working with Prototype
			Section 14.3.  Script.aculo.us: More Than the Sum of Its Periods
			Section 14.4.  Sabre's Rico
			Section 14.5.  Dojo
			Section 14.6.  The Yahoo! UI
			Section 14.7.  MochiKit
			Section 14.8.  Questions
		Appendix 1.  Answers
			Section A.1.  Chapter 2
			Section A.2.  Chapter 3
			Section A.3.  Chapter 4
			Section A.4.  Chapter 5
			Section A.5.  Chapter 6
			Section A.6.  Chapter 7
			Section A.7.  Chapter 8
			Section A.8.  Chapter 9
			Section A.9.  Chapter 10
			Section A.10.  Chapter 11
			Section A.11.  Chapter 12
			Section A.12.  Chapter 13
			Section A.13.  Chapter 14
		Colophon
		Index