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JavaScript

The Missing Manual

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Published: 14th August 2008
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JavaScript is essential for creating modern, interactive websites. But, unlike HTML and CSS, JavaScript is a true programming language with complex rules that are challenging for most web designers to learn. In JavaScript: The Missing Manual, bestselling author David McFarland teaches you how to use JavaScript in sophisticated ways - even if you have little or no programming experience.In a clear, entertaining way, the book starts out by teaching you how to build a basic JavaScript program. Then, once you've mastered the structure and terminology, you'll learn how to use advanced JavaScript tools to add useful interactivity to your sites quickly and painlessly, rather than scripting everything from scratch.

About the Author

David Sawyer McFarland is the president of Sawyer McFarland Media Inc., a web development and training company located in Portland, Oregon. In addition, he teaches JavaScript programming, Flash, and web design at the University of California, Berkeley, the Center for Electronic Art, the Academy of Art College, and Ex'Pressions Center for New Media. He was formerly the webmaster at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center. David is also the author of CSS: The Missing Manual and Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual.

The Missing Credits
About the Author
About the Creative Team
Acknowledgements
The Missing Manual Series
Introduction
What Is JavaScript?
HTML: The Barebones Structure
CSS: Adding Style to Web Pages
Software for JavaScript Programming
About This Book
The Very Basics
Getting Started with JavaScript
Writing Your First JavaScript Program
Introducing Programming
How to Add JavaScript to a Page
Your First JavaScript Program
Writing Text on a Web Page
Attaching an External JavaScript File
Tracking Down Errors
The Grammar of JavaScript
Statements
Commands
Types of Data
Variables
Working with Data Types and Variables
Tutorial: Using Variables to Create Messages
Tutorial: Asking for Information
Arrays
Tutorial: Writing to a Web Page Using Arrays
Comments
Adding Logic and Control to Your Programs
Making Programs React Intelligently
Tutorial: Using Conditional Statements
Handling Repetitive Tasks with Loops
Functions: Turn Useful Code Into Reusable Commands
Tutorial: A Simple Quiz
Working with Words, Numbers, and Dates
A Quick Object Lesson
Strings
Finding Patterns in Strings
Numbers
Dates and Times
Tutorial
Dynamically Modifying Web Pages
Modifying Web Pages: An Overview
Understanding the Document Object Model
Introducing JavaScript Libraries
Selecting Page Elements (Revisited)
Adding Content to a Page
Setting and Reading Tag Attributes
Reading, Setting, and Removing HTML Attributes
Creative Headlines
Acting on Each Element in a Selection
Automatic Pull Quotes
Action/Reaction: Making Pages Come Alive with Events
What Are Events?
Using Events with Functions
Tutorial: Highlighting Table Rows
More jQuery Event Concepts
Advanced Event Management
Tutorial: A One-Page FAQ
Improving Your Images
Swapping Images
Tutorial: Adding Rollover Images
jQuery Effects
Tutorial: Photo Gallery with Effects
Advanced Gallery with jQuery lightBox
Tutorial: lightBox Photo Gallery
Animated Slideshows with Cycle
Tutorial: An Automated Slideshow
Building Web Page Features
Improving Navigation
Some Link Basics
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ISBN: 9780596515898
ISBN-10: 0596515898
Series: MISSING MANUALS
Audience: Professional
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 546
Published: 14th August 2008
Dimensions (cm): 23.7 x 18.2  x 3.4
Weight (kg): 0.868