This friendly, solutions-oriented guide is filled with step-by-step examples that illustrate how to write basic to advanced JavaScript applications, as well as modify existing scripts to suit individual needs. Each chapter begins with the specific how-to topics that will be covered. Within the chapter, each topic is accompanied by a solid, easy-to-follow walkthrough of the process.

This new edition of the definitive guide to JavaScript has been revamped to cover the latest browsers, language updates, extensions, and JavaScript standards
Part tutorial and part reference, the book serves as a learning tool for building new JavaScript skills and a detailed reference for seasoned JavaScript developers
Danny Goodman's exclusive interactive workbench, The Evaluator, makes it easy to master JavaScript and DOM concepts
Offers deployment strategies that best suit the user's content goals and target audience

JavaScript is a scripting language developed by Netscape to enable Web authors to design interactive sites. JavaScript can interact with HTML source code, enabling Web authors to spice up their sites with dynamic content. JavaScript Programming for the Absolute Beginner not only teaches you JavaScript, a great programming "gateway" language, it will teach you the fundamental programming concepts you need to grasp in order to learn any computer language. It also uses game creation as a learning tool. You will learn how to program in JavaScript and produce something at the same time! Plus, the accompanying CD will contain games that you can cut and paste right into your own Web site! This book is perfect for anyone looking for an easy, non-intimidating introduction to JavaScript and general programming concepts.

JavaScript is the scripting language of the Web. Its widespread use in web applications, and support in all modern browsers and in server-side and administration environments, make it an essential part of the programmers' toolkit.

Complexity and confusion in JavaScript come not from the language, but from the number of different implementations, each with widely varying support for different APIs and standards. Written from extensive programming experience gained in developing components for a major website, this book helps you navigate those difficulties.

The accompanying CD not only presents this entire book in PDF format, fully hyperlinked and viewlable with Acrobat Reader ™, but provides a cross-referenced, lexical reference that includes over 3500 entries, giving an even more comprehensive, browser-based companion to the book.

While it’s doesn’t cover JavaScript 1.1 as deeply as some other books, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to JavaScript, Second Edition, offers a quick, to-the-point introduction to the subject. By the time you finish working through the explanatory text and examples, you’ll know enough about JavaScript to create simple or moderately complicated programs and to figure out more complex examples.

Weiss’s simple but adequate coverage of cookies (he walks you through writing a program that welcomes return visitors) provides the answers many JavaScript newcomers want. And although there’s no companion CD-ROM, the examples, which include an outstanding blackjack game, are mostly short and always easy to follow. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to JavaScript, Second Edition, isn’t a power programmer’s text, but it may serve your purpose if you’re looking to solve a straightforward problem or two with JavaScript.

JavaScript is the language of the Web. Used for programming all major browsers, JavaScript gives you the ability to enhance your web site by creating interactive, dynamic and personalized pages. Our focus in this book is on client-side scripting, but JavaScript is also hugely popular as a scripting language in server-side environments, a subject that we cover in later chapters.
Beginning JavaScript assumes no prior knowledge of programming languages, and teaches you all the fundamental concepts that you need as you progress. After covering the core JavaScript language, you’ll move on to learn about more advanced techniques, including Dynamic HTML, using cookies, debugging techniques, and server-side scripting with ASP. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the art of using JavaScript to create dynamic and professional-looking web pages.

Developers are hungry for a concise, easy-to-use reference that puts essential code “phrases” at their fingertips. JavaScript, and the related AJAX, is hot and there is little to no information on how to use JavaScript to develop AJAX-based applications. While there are many JavaScript books on the market, most of them are dated and few cover the most recent developments, such as AJAX. JavaScript Phrasebook is the guide to JavaScript and AJAX that you can and will take with you everywhere. Skipping the usual tutorial on JavaScript and introducing AJAX as one of the first published works on the topic, the JavaScript Phrasebook goes straight to practical JavaScript and AJAX tools, providing immediately applicable solutions for frequent tasks and code so flexible that it is easily adapted to the your individual needs.

In JavaScript by Example, Ellie Quigley teaches JavaScript using the same proven approach that’s made her the
world’s favorite scripting author and instructor. This book’s unique and classroom-tested learning path contains
hundreds of small, easy-to-understand examples that demonstrate the full range of JavaScript’s power. One step at
a time, Quigley guides new JavaScript programmers through every essential technique, from script setup to advanced
DOM and CSS programming.

JavaScript is a compact, object-based scripting language for developing client and server Internet applications. It allows you to perform form validation, format text content, and add animation, sound effects and Dynamic HTML to any Web page. JavaScript Professional Projects is geared toward the Web site developer who wants to create interactive, engaging sites. You will learn how to write not only JavaScript that can stand on its own within a Web page, but also how to write scripts that interact with applications written in other development languages. The projects presented within this book will reduce the coding work and JavaScript learning curve by providing the majority of JavaScript applications you want.

As web browsers have become more capable and standards compliant, JavaScript has grown in prominence. JavaScript lets designers add sparkle and life to web pages, while more complex JavaScript has led to the rise of Ajax — the latest rage in web development that allows developers to create powerful and more responsive applications in the browser window.
Learning JavaScript introduces this powerful scripting language to web designers and developers in easy-to-understand terms. Using the latest examples from modern browser development practices, this book teaches you how to integrate the language with the browser environment, and how to practice proper coding techniques for standards-compliant web sites. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to use all of the JavaScript language and many of the object models provided by web browsers, and you’ll even be able to create a basic Ajax application.