JavaScript Design

ISBN: 0735711674
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2001
Pages: 25

Authors: William B. Sanders, Bill Sanders

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JavaScript Design
Copyright
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewers
Acknowledgments
Tell Us What You Think
Part I: Basic JavaScript
Chapter 1. Jump-Starting JavaScript
JavaScript Lives in a Web Page
Putting JavaScript into Your HTML Pages
What You Can Do with JavaScript That You Can t Do with HTML
An Interpreted Language
A Tale of Two Interpreters
Generated JavaScript
Summary
Chapter 2. An Orientation to JavaScript
Writing JavaScript
Naming Rules and Conventions
A Weakly Typed Language Means That JavaScript IsSmart
Summary
Chapter 3. Dealing with Data and Variables
Literals
Variables
Primitive and Compound Data
Arrays
Summary
Chapter 4. Using Operators and Expressions
General and Bitwise Operators
General Operators in JavaScript
Operators
Precedence
Summary
Chapter 5. JavaScript Structures
Statements in Sequential Structures
Conditional Structures
Loops
The with Statement
The label and continue Statements and Nested Loops
Summary
Chapter 6. Building and Calling Functions
Methods and Functions
Creating Functions
Firing Functions with Event Handlers
The return Statement
Using Functions as Data
Properties in Functions
Methods in Functions
Summary
Chapter 7. Objects and Object Hierarchies
Hierarchy of Objects in JavaScript
User-Defined Objects
Built-in Objects and Their Properties
Key Built-in Object Methods
Summary
Part II: Using JavaScript with Web Pages
Chapter 8. JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming and the Document Object Model
Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript
The Prototype Concept
The Document Object Model
Summary
Chapter 9. Frames and Addressing Frames in Windows
The Window as a Complex Object
Scripts That Write Scripts
Summary
Chapter 10. Event Handlers
The location, anchor, and history Objects
Events and Event Handlers in HTML and JavaScript
Summary
Chapter 11. Making Forms Perform
The Many Types of Forms Elements in HTML
All Text Entries Are Strings
Passing Data Between Forms and Variables
Forms as Arrays
Types of Forms
Buttons and Their Events
Summary
Chapter 12. Dynamic HTML
What Is Dynamic HTML?
Cascading Style Sheets
Borders
External CSS Style Sheets
The Role of JavaScript in Dynamic HTML
Summary
Chapter 13. Remember with Cookies
What Are Cookies and How Are They Used?
Adding More Attributes
Getting Information and Giving It Back
Summary
Part III: JavaScript and Other Applications and Languages
Chapter 14. Using PHP with JavaScript
The PHP4 Scripting Language
Passing Data from JavaScript to PHP
Controlling Multiple PHP Pages with JavaScript
JavaScript Form Preprocessing for PHP
JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL
Summary
Chapter 15. Using ASP with JavaScript
Creating ASP Pages
Variables in VBScript
Operators and Conditional Statements
Loop Structures
Arrays
Passing Data from JavaScript to ASP
Controlling Multiple ASP Pages with JavaScript
Microsoft Access, ASP, and JavaScript
Setting Up the Access 2000 File
Placing the Access 2000 File on the Server and Preparing the DSN
Making the Connection Between Your ASP Page andDatabase File
Reading an Access 2000 Database with ASP
Reading and Displaying Multiple Fields
Inserting Records into Access from HTML
Summary
Chapter 16. CGI and Perl
Scripting with Perl
A Brief Perl Tutorial
Perl Operators
Perl Statements
File Handling in Perl
Passing Data to CGI from HTML
Summary
Chapter 17. Working with XML and JavaScript
The XML Mystique
What Is XML?
Reading and Showing XML Data with JavaScript
Summary
Chapter 18. Flash ActionScript and JavaScript
ActionScript and JavaScript
Firing a JavaScript Function from Flash
Passing Variables from Flash 5 to JavaScript
Summary
Chapter 19. JavaScript and Other Languages
JavaScript and Java Applets
A Little Java
JavaScript and ColdFusion
JavaScript and ASP.NET
Summary
Example Glossary