Greatly enhanced and updated from the third edition, this is the title any JavaScripter cannot afford to be without! JavaScript Bible, 4th Edition covers the new powerful functionality JavaScript will gain with the release of new revs of Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator. This book features essential new JS information, additional ready-to-use JavaScript applications, and scores of additional JavaScripts and Web page routines. As with the last edition, this book will bring non-technical professionals, including casual programmers and scripters, painlessly up to speed on all aspects of mastering JavaScript, including programming fundamentals, JavaScript language elements, and how to use them effectively, and how to easily and efficiently add powerful new functionality to HTML documents and Java applets.
Aimed at the HTML designer with or without previous programming experience, the JavaScript Bible, Fourth Edition, brings a popular text up to date with a full tour of using JavaScript with all of today's Web browsers. Smart, very approachable, and filled with many useful tips, this book can put JavaScript development into the reach of just about anyone.
After presenting a solid tour of basic programming in JavaScript, the book centers in on the issues of developing JavaScript applications for real browsers. This means truly comprehensive coverage of the document object model (DOM), HTML, window and frame objects, forms, and style sheets that are available today. In about 1,000 pages (and almost 30 chapters), you learn what's available in today's JavaScript standard with a reference listing every object, API, and property, plus tips on how to use each feature. All this material makes this text an extremely worthwhile desktop reference for everyday JavaScript development. In particular, we liked that support (or lack thereof) for every feature is clearly documented across the full range of today's browsers from Netscape Navigator 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 to Internet Explorer 3 through 5.5.
Later chapters move toward the JavaScript language itself, with material on strings, math functions, and dates. The author discusses techniques for adapting JavaScript to particular browsers as well as providing cross-browser support where appropriate. Short exercises end each chapter, and the book presents sample solutions in an appendix. Additional CD-ROM chapters move beyond the whopping 1,200 pages of printed material.
In all, the author's patient, clear writing style and real-world advice for creating great-looking Web pages with JavaScript make this title a winner. Readers of previous editions of the JavaScript Bible will appreciate the updated focus on current browsers. For anyone who wants to learn JavaScript for the first time, this edition is arguably an unbeatable choice. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered:
Introduction to JavaScript and HTML
Targeting different browsers (with DHTML, style sheets, and other features)
Basic JavaScript language tutorial (including variables, operators, expressions, flow control, forms, and built-in APIs)
Script tags
Error handling
Arrays
Window and document objects
Form processing with JavaScript
Tutorial and reference for the String, Math, and Date classes
Frames
Images (including rollover support)
Comprehensive JavaScript reference
ECMAScript
Detecting different browsers
Document object model (DOM) for Netscape 2 through 6 and IE 3 through 5
Generic HTML objects
Window and frame objects
Location and history objects
Document and body objects
Body text objects
HTML directives
Link and anchor objects
Image and map objects
Form and form control objects
Working with buttons and text in HTML forms
Select and option elements
Table and list objects
Netscape Navigator and environment objects
Event objects
Style sheet reference
Positioned objects
JavaScript operators
Functions and custom objects
Sample programming exercises and answers
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Great Resource:
This book is a great resource for when you're looking for that specific line of code. Its terrible to read from front to back, but its an excellent way to find exactly what you're looking for. Its so much code, it'll make your eyes bleed.
Buena utilidad para en embale de IE y netscape:
lo bueno es el comparativ de que funciona en que versión de cada producto, muy util para resolver chicharrones cuando se necesitaban certificar aplicaciones (funcionalidades)bajo varios navegadores
good:
This book is great,coves probably everything there is to cover in javascript but...........if you have never doen anything like this before you should start out with something more siple first,although the book claims new people to web programming, the new people will have a hard time with it.
confused organization:
I would give this book a five star rating for its content if it were easier to locate what I want. Particularly vexing is that the author has placed some of the content only on the CD with listings page such as 'CD-281.' After months of looking I can not find the files designated as 'CD' on the CD.
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