JavaScript: The Missing Manual - Softcover

Mcfarland, David M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596515898 ISBN 13: 9780596515898

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2008

Synopsis

JavaScript is an essential language for creating modern, interactive websites, but its complex rules challenge even the most experienced web designers. With JavaScript: The Missing Manual, you'll quickly learn how to use JavaScript in sophisticated ways -- without pain or frustration -- even if you have little or no programming experience.

JavaScript expert David McFarland first teaches you the basics by having you build a simple program. Then you'll learn how to work with jQuery, a popular library of pre-built JavaScript components that's free and easy to use. With jQuery, you can quickly build modern, interactive web pages -- without having to script everything from scratch!

• Learn how to add scripts to a web page, store and manipulate information, communicate with the browser window, respond to events like mouse clicks and form submissions, and identify and modify HTML
• Get real-world examples of JavaScript in action
• Learn to build pop-up navigation bars, enhance HTML tables, create an interactive photo gallery, and make web forms more usable
• Create interesting user interfaces with tabbed panels, accordion panels, and pop-up dialog boxes
• Learn to avoid the ten most common errors new programmers make, and how to find and fix bugs
• Use JavaScript with Ajax to communicate with a server so that your web pages can receive information without having to reload

About this title

Synopsis

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. To jump-start your progress, the book offers several "living examples" - step-by-step tutorials for building website components with JavaScript using raw materials, such as graphics and half-completed Web pages, that you can download from the book's companion website.In this book: Getting Started introduces the building blocks of JavaScript, and general tips on computer programming.

You can learn to add scripts to a web page; store and manipulate information; communicate with the browser window; respond to events like mouse clicks and form submissions; and identify and modify HTML.Building Web Page features provides real-world examples of JavaScript in action. You can learn to create pop-up navigation bars, enhance HTML tables, build an interactive photo gallery, and make web forms more usable. You can create interesting user interfaces with tabbed panels, accordion panels and pop-up dialog boxes. Troubleshooting and Debugging shows you how to avoid the ten most common errors new programmers make, and how to find and fix bugs. Communicating with the Web Server covers Ajax, the approach that made JavaScript glamorous. You can learn to use JavaScript to communicate with a server so that your web pages can receive information without having to reload. If you want to put JavaScript to work right away with getting tangled up in code, "JavaScript: The Missing Manual" is the best book available.

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'Pression College for Digital Arts. 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0596515898
• ISBN 13: 9780596515898
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 543