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2 books in 1! This fast-paced book teaches you how to use both JavaScript and DOM scripting to create websites that deliver the dynamic interfaces, fast response times, and special effects that today’s users expect. By the end of chapter 3, you’ll be coding, testing, and debugging applications using a subset of JavaScript. And by the end of chapter 12, you’ll know the complete JavaScript language and some elementary DOM scripting. But to get the most from JavaScript, you need to use it for DOM scripting in all its complexity. So this book shows you how to do that at an expert level, enabling you to build applications like the one in chapter 18: A rotating, 3-dimensional carousel of images that the user can control with the mouse or keystrokes. Along the way, you’ll learn how to create and use event handling libraries to ensure browser compatibility. And you’ll get extensive libraries to start with when you download the book applications.

This book covers all released components whether utility, control, core file, or CSS tool. Methods of the YAHOO Global Object are used and discussed throughout the book. Besides giving you a deep understand of the YUI library, this book will expand your knowledge of object-oriented JavaScript programming, as well as strengthen your understanding of the DOM and CSS. You will learn to create a number of powerful JavaScript controls that can be used straight away in your own applications. For more information about the book, please visit: http://www.packtpub.com/y ahoo!-user-interface-libr ary-yui/book

The purpose of this book is to provide the essentials of JavaScript so that anyone with a web site can use this powerful scripting language quickly and effectively. This book does not take any shortcuts. It provides detailed and indepth knowledge of all aspects of JavaScript from language basics through to advanced topics. This book is designed to provide a detailed and comprehensive, yet easy to follow, guide to developing powerful, dynamic web pages using JavaScript.

The JavaScript Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks provides you with tried and tested real-world solutions to your web scripting problems. This is the most complete question-and-answer book on JavaScript. It�s a collection of over 100 thoroughly-tested, customizable and elegant solutions that will show you how to add usable and accessible interactivity to your site: from slick drop-down menus, to style sheet switchers, to AJAX applications, and much more.

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 book covers several topics not covered in other titles, including the new JavaScript 2.0, using JavaScript with DOM 1 and 2, and creating dynamic stylesheets.

This is a new kind of JavaScript book. It's not cut'n'paste, it's not a reference, and it's not an exhaustive investigation of the JavaScript language. It is about client-side, web-focused, and task-oriented JavaScript. 'Practical JavaScript for the Usable Web' takes a two pronged approach to learning the JavaScript that you need to get your work done: teaching the core client-side JavaScript that you need to incorporate usable interactivity into your web applications, including many short functional scripts, and building up a complete application with shopping cart functionality.

JavaScript is a client-side scripting language that allows you to add various features and effects to your web site and which also allows you to perform useful tasks such as form validation. This book is written in a style that allows both those with and without programming experience to learn the basics of JavaScript coding. The book has special features to help you grasp what you need to know in each chapter. Chapters begin with a set of goals, and include checkpoints along the way to test what you have covered. Also, there are projects that allow you to code scripts similar to those discussed in the chapter on your own and check your results in the browser or by looking at the downloadable code on this site. At the end of each chapter is a Mastery Check which asks you a few questions related to the content of the chapter, with answers in the appendix.

Beginning JavaScript is a patient, introductory tutorial on writing scripts successfully. It assumes no prior knowledge of programming languages, and teaches you how to create client-side scripts (including full coverage of fundamentals like variables and flow control, plus plenty of screen shots.) 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.

JavaScript for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, Third Edition is the book for people who already know how to build Web pages with HTML, and are ready to take the next step in making their sites more interesting and exciting. With an easy, step-by-step approach and loads of useful illustrations, readers learn to use JavaScript to liven up their pages with dynamic images and smart forms. They'll learn to control browsers; detect which browser or plug-ins the user has and automatically take action; use JavaScript to create and manipulate windows, and much more.

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide provides a thorough description of the core JavaScript language and its client-side framework, complete with sophisticated examples that show you how to handle common tasks, like validating form data and working with cookies. The book also contains a definitive, in-depth reference section that covers every core and client-side JavaScript function, object, method, property, constructor, and event handler. This book is an indispensable reference for all JavaScript programmers, regardless of experience level. This third edition of JavaScript: The Definitive Guide describes the latest version of the language, JavaScript 1.2, as supported by Netscape Navigator 4 and Internet Explorer 4. The book also covers JavaScript 1.1, which is the first industry-standard version known as ECMAScript.