Advanced JavaScript: Insights and Innovative Techniques - Softcover

Livingston, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130478911 ISBN 13: 9780130478917

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2002

Synopsis

Appropriate for advanced courses in Web Programming and Design.

Designed to give students a broad, insider's view of what top professional scripters are doing with JavaScript, this is THE definitive source for professional JavaScript code and techniques. It features more than 100 task-oriented, annotated solutions―with tons of code from a number of different sources―all focusing on real code for real clients. Coverage moves beyond the basics―master forms, validation, and cookies―to managing hierarchical menus, regular expressions, XML, and Macromedia Flash integration, to mastering security, stylesheets, browsers, DHTML, and DOM programming.

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From the Back Cover

The definitive source for professional JavaScript code.

• 100+ task-oriented solutions―fully explained
• Move beyond the basics―master forms, validation, and cookies
• Manage hierarchical menus, regular expressions, XML, and Macromedia Flash integration
• Master security, stylesheets, browsers, DHTML, and DOM programming
• Real code for real clients... no "stupid JavaScript tricks"!

100+ real-world solutions fully explained.

Advanced JavaScript, Insights and Innovative Techniques provides an arsenal of powerful solutions to your most difficult Web development challenges. Dan Livingston dissects the code created by top JavaScript developers, revealing the tricks of the masters. From hierarchical menus to XML and Macromedia Flash integration, experience the cutting edge of JavaScript and discover the emerging techniques you need to solve real problems.

Advanced JavaScript, Insights and Innovative Techniques covers:

• Hierarchical menus: arrays, main functions, and behaviors
• FolderTree: complex hierarchical tree views of folders and documents
• Using regular expressions to extract data and replace text
• Using JavaScript to import and read XML
• Calling JavaScript from Flash movies
• Stylesheets, DHTML, and the Document Object Model (DOM)
• Mouseovers: image replacement, rollover functions, preloading, submenus, and more
• Dropdown menus, including navigation and altering menu content
• Form elements: text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, and text areas
• Validating user data, credit card numbers, and other form input
• Dynamic table configurations: from basic report making to advanced techniques
• News scrollers, layer sliders, and other advanced applications
• Cookies, list manipulation, communicating among frames, swapping image maps, and much more

Synopsis

Now, there's a definitive source for the real-world JavaScript program code! In this comprehensive, fully annotated reference, best-selling author Dan Livingston brings together professional-level, easy-to-adapt JavaScript solutions for everything from forms to DHTML, browser detection to XML processing. Livingston begins by presenting code for HTML manipulation, ranging from preloading and list manipulation to complex mouseovers, as well as code for enhancing forms and altering and communicating amongst frames. He presents detailed coverage of DHTML, including sophisticated folder trees and sliders; as well as a full chapter on hierarchical menus. Livingston provides new JavaScript code for manipulating XML; detecting browsers and utilizing their capabilities; managing users; and enhancing security; and much more. The book's expert solutions range from pattern matching to WMLScript wireless programming, calendars to embedded audio. Advanced JavaScript concludes with a thorough, up-to-date JavaScript reference. For every JavaScript developer, and for every Web developer who needs fast access to proven JavaScript code.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0130478911
• ISBN 13: 9780130478917
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 592