JavaScript bible

Getting Started with JavaScript

JavaScript's Role in the World Wide Web

Authoring Challenges amid the Browser Wars

Your First JavaScript Script

JavaScript Tutorial

Browser and Document Objects

Scripts and HTML Documents

Programming Fundamentals, Part I

Programming Fundamentals, Part II

Window and Document Objects

Forms and Form Elements

Strings, Math, and Dates

Scripting Frames and Multiple Windows

Images and Dynamic HTML

JavaScript Object and Language Reference

JavaScript Essentials

The Window Object

Location and History Objects

The Document Object

Link and Anchor Objects

Image and Area Objects

The Layer Object

The Applet Object

The Form Object

Text-Related Objects

Button Objects

Select and FileUpload Objects

Navigator and Other Environment Objects

The String Object

Math, Number, and Boolean Objects

The Date Object

The Array Object

Regular Expression and RegExp Objects

Control Structures

JavaScript Operators

The Event Object

Getting Started with JavaScript

JavaScript's Role in the World Wide Web

Competition on the Web

Stretching the Standards

CGI Scripting

Of Helpers, Plug-ins, and Applets

JavaScript: A Language for All

JavaScript: The Right Tool for the Right Job

Authoring Challenges amid the Browser Wars

Leapfrog

Ducking for Cover

Compatibility Issues Today

Developing a Scripting Strategy

Your First JavaScript Script

The Software Tools

What Your First Script Will Do

Entering Your First Script

Examining the Script

Have Some Fun

JavaScript Tutorial

Browser and Document Objects

Scripts Run the Show

JavaScript in Action

The Document Object Model

Containment Hierarchy

When a Document Loads

Object References

About the Dot Syntax

What Defines an Object?

Exercises

Scripts and HTML Documents

Where Scripts Go in Documents

JavaScript Statements

When Script Statements Execute

Scripting versus Programming

Exercises

Programming Fundamentals, Part I

Working with Information

Variables

Expressions and Evaluation

Data Type Conversions

Operators

Exercises

Programming Fundamentals, Part II

Decisions and Loops

Control Structures

About Repeat Loops

Functions

About Curly Braces

Arrays

Exercises

Window and Document Objects

Document Objects

The Window Object

Window Properties and Methods

The Location Object

The History Object

The Document Object

The Link Object

Exercises

Forms and Form Elements

The Form Object

Text Objects

The Button Object

The Checkbox Object

The Radio Object

The Select Object

Passing Form Data and Elements to Functions

Submitting Forms

Exercises

Strings, Math, and Dates

Core Language Objects

String Objects

The Math Object

The Date Object

Date Calculations

Exercises

Scripting Frames and Multiple Windows

Frames: Parents and Children

References among Family Members

Frame Scripting Tips

Controlling Multiple Frames

Navigation Bars

More about Window References

Exercises

Images and Dynamic HTML

The Image Object

More Dynamism in HTML

Exercises

JavaScript Object and Language Reference

JavaScript Essentials

Language and Document Objects

The Object Hierarchy

Creating JavaScript Objects

Object Properties

Object Methods

Object Event Handlers

Embedding Scripts in Documents

Browser Version Detection

Designing for Compatibility

Object Definitions in This Book

The Window Object

Window Terminology

Frames

Window Object

Frame Object

Location and History Objects

Location Object

History Object

The Document Object

Dynamic HTML and Documents

Document Object

Link and Anchor Objects

Link Object

Anchor Object

Image and Area Objects

Image Object

Area Object

The Layer Object

Netscape Layers

Layer Object

The Applet Object

No Java Required

Applet Object

The Form Object

The Form in the Object Hierarchy

Form Object

Text-Related Objects

Text Object

Password Object

Textarea Object

Hidden Object

Button Objects

The Button Object, Submit Object, and Reset Object

Checkbox Object

Radio Object

Select and FileUpload Objects

Select Object

FileUpload Object

Navigator and Other Environment Objects

Navigator Object

MimeType Object

Syntax

About this object

Plugin Object

Looking for MIME and Plug-ins

Screen Object

The String Object

String and Number Data Types

String Object

URL String Encoding and Decoding

Math, Number, and Boolean Objects

Numbers in JavaScript

Math Object

Number Object

Boolean Object

The Date Object

Time Zones and GMT

The Date Object

Validating Date Entries in Forms

The Array Object

Structured Data

Creating an Empty Array

Populating an Array

JavaScript 1.2 Array Creation Enhancements

Deleting Arrays and Array Entries

Simulating Two-Dimensional Arrays

Array Object Properties

Array Object Methods

Regular Expression and RegExp Objects

Regular Expressions and Patterns

Language Basics

Object Relationships

Using Regular Expressions

Regular Expression Object

RegExp Object

Control Structures

If and If ... Else Decisions

Conditional Expressions

Repeat (for) Loops

The while Loop

The do-while Loop

Looping through Properties

The with Statement

Labeled Statements

The switch Statement

JavaScript Operators

Operator Categories

Comparison Operators

Equality of Disparate Data Types

Connubial Operators

Assignment Operators

Boolean Operators

Bitwise Operators

The typeof Operator

The void Operator

The new Operator

The delete Operator

The this Operator

Operator Precedence

The Event Object

Why Events?

New Navigator

New Events

Event Object

Functions and Custom Objects

Function Object

Function Application Notes

Invoking Functions

Variable Scope: Globals and Locals

Custom Objects

JavaScript Components

Global Functions and Statements

Functions

Statements

Server-side JavaScript

Adding Server Processing to Documents

Essential Server-side Objects

Database Access with LiveWire

Server or Client JavaScript?

Putting JavaScript to Work

Data-Entry Validation

Real-time versus Batch Validation

Designing Filters

Building a Library of Filter Functions

Combining Validation Functions

Date and Time Validation

An "Industrial-Strength" Validation Solution

Plan for Data Validation

LiveConnect: Scripting Java Applets and Plug-ins

LiveConnect Overview

Why Control Java Applets?

A Little Java

Scripting Applets in Real Life

Applet-to-Script Communication

Scripting Navigator Plug-ins

Scripting Java Classes Directly

Advanced Event Handling

The "Other" Event Object

Capturing Events

Dueling Event Models

Security and Signed Scripts

Battening Down the Hatches

When Worlds Collide

The Java Sandbox

Security Policies

The Same Origin Policy

The Signed Script Policy

The Digital Certificate

Signing Scripts

Accessing Protected Properties and Methods

Blending Privileges into Scripts

Examples

Handling Java Class Errors

Signed Script Miscellany

Scripting Cross-Platform Dynamic HTML

What is DHTML?

Cross-Platform DHTML Challenges

Finding the Common Denominator

Working Around Incompatibilities

Handling Non-DHTML Browsers

A DHTML Application Example

Netscape Dynamic HTML and JavaScript Extensions

JavaScript Styles

Style Properties

Dynamic Positioning

Microsoft Dynamic HTML

Internet Explorer 4 Document Object Model

Style Object Properties

Dynamic Positioning

Internet Explorer 4 JScript and Object Model

Core Language

Document Object Model

Events

Scripting Engine Versions

Debugging Scripts

Syntax versus Runtime Errors

Error Message Alerts

Sniffing Out Problems

Using the JavaScript Debugger

Writing Your Own Trace Utility

Navigator Crashes

Preventing Problems

Testing Your Masterpiece

Authoring Tools

Acadia's Infuse 2.0

Netscape Visual JavaScript

Other Server-Side Tools

JavaScript Applications

Netscape Navigator Object Road Map and Compatibility Guide

JavaScript Reserved Words

Answers to Tutorial Exercises

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JavaScript Internet Resources

Newsgroups

Listserv

Online Documentation

World Wide Web

Using the CD-ROM

System Requirements

Disc Contents

End-User License Agreement

CD-ROM Installation Instructions