JavaScript:Creating Dynamic Web Pages
Elizabeth Gandy and Simon Stobart
Chapter 1: Introduction
- Welcome
- What is JavaScript?
- Who is this book for?
- What will you need?
- Structure of the book
- Conventions and style
- What next…
Chapter 2: Tools, versions and issues
- Introduction
- Tools
- Versions
- Issues
- JavaScript security
- Summary
Chapter 3: HTML/XHTML primer
- Introduction
- The structure of an XHTML document
- Basic formatting
- XHTML comments
- Headings
- Hyperlinks
- Images
- Hyperlinked images
- Special characters and formatting
- Lists
- Tables
- Summary
Chapter 4: Stylesheets
- Introduction
- In-line styles
- Document-level stylesheets
- External stylesheets
- Cascading effects of stylesheets
- Contextual style rules
- Style classes
- Tag-less styles
- Summary
Chapter 5: Variables, data types and the object
model
- Introduction
- What are data types?
- Constants
- What are variables?
- Variable identifiers
- Variables and types
- Declaring variables
- Variable naming
- Variable scope
- The document object model
- Summary
Chapter 6: Expressions, operands and operators
- Introduction
- Expressions
- Operands
- Operators
- Operator precedence
- Summary
Chapter 7: Flow of control
- Introduction
- if statement
- else statement
- else if
- switch
- Loops
- while loop
- for loop
- do while loops
- Multiple loops
- Nested loops
- for in loop
- break statement
- continue
- Summary
Chapter 8: User defined functions
- Introduction
- Our first function
- Multiple function calls
- Passing parameters
- Accessing global variables
- Local variables
- Returning values
- Multiple functions
- Invoking functions within functions
- Defining functions within functions
- Recursive functions
- Coins function example
- Summary
Chapter 9: Arrays
- Introduction
- What is an array?
- Single-dimensional arrays
- Array literals
- Multi-dimensional arrays
- Adding new array elements
- Determining an array’s length
- Sorting an array
- Arrays to strings
- Reversing an array
- Slicing and splicing
- Stack processing
- Summary
Chapter 10: Dates, time and random numbers
- Introduction
- Getting the date and time
- Generating a random number
- Random graphics
- A calendar example
- Summary
Chapter 11: Interaction with the user (dialogs
and forms)
- Introduction
- JavaScript dialogs
- The alert dialog
- The confirm dialog
- The prompt dialog
- Providing basic functionality with
a form
- Obtaining data from a form
- Writing data to a form
- Summary
Chapter 12: Events and event handling
- Introduction
- What is an event?
- Error handling
- Hiding all errors
- Time-generated events
- Time-generated status bar message
- Event handlers
- Summary
Chapter 13: Navigation and redirection
- Introduction
- The document location property
- The location replace method
- Handling non-JavaScript browsers
- Summary
Chapter 14: Windows
- Introduction
- Creating a new window
- Creating a window with content
- Window name
- Setting window properties
- Allowing the user to create windows
- Closing windows
- Duplicate windows
- Window focus
- Putting it all together
- Summary
Chapter 15: Frames
- Introduction
- Basic frames
- Embedded frames
- Handling non-frames browsers
- Interaction between frames
- Using JavaScript with frames
- iFrames
- Summary
Chapter 16: More forms
- Introduction
- Checkboxes
- Radio buttons
- Selection lists
- Form validation
- Form validation in client/server systems
- Forms and windows combined
- Calendar-picker example
- Summary
Chapter 17: User defined objects
- Introduction
- Class and prototyped object-oriented
programming languages
- Creating objects and their properties
- Adjusting and manipulating object
properties
- Viewing the properties of an object
- Constructors
- Object methods
- Inheritance
- Summary
Chapter 18: Cookies
- Introduction
- Writing a simple cookie
- Reading cookies
- Writing and reading multiple cookies
- A generic cookie reading function
- The lifetime of a cookie
- Access to a cookie
- Cookie security
- Limitations of cookies
- Summary
Chapter 19: Layers and animation
- Introduction
- Our first layers
- Positioning the layers
- Layering
- Visibility
- Width and height
- Borders
- Padding
- Layer ids
- Browser detection
- Changing the background colour of
a layer
- Changing the position of a layer
- Changing the content of a layer
- Animated layers
- Summary
Chapter 20: How to create an “animated” table
- Introduction
- Why would we want to do this?
- What does it look like?
- How are we going to do it?
- The completed script
Chapter 21: How to create “intelligent” graphics
- Introduction
- Why would we want to do this?
- What does it look like?
- How are we going to do it?
- The completed script
Chapter 22: How to create an animated merging
image
- Introduction
- Why would we want to do this?
- What does it look like?
- How are we going to do it?
- The completed script
Chapter 23: How to create images that follow
the mouse
- Introduction
- Why would we want to do this?
- What does it look like?
- How are we going to do it?
- The completed script
Chapter 24: How to create a “snowing” web
page
- Introduction
- Why would we want to do this?
- What does it look like?
- How are we going to do it?
- The completed script
Chapter 25: A “floating” calendar
- Introduction
- Why would we want to do this?
- What does it look like?
- How are we going to do it?
- The completed script
Chapter 26: A drop-down menu system
- Introduction
- Why would we want to do this?
- What does it look like?
- How are we going to do it?
- The completed script
Chapter 27: A moveable clock
- Introduction
- Why would we want to do this?
- What does it look like?
- How are we going to do it?
- The completed script
Chapter 28: A game of “Pong”
- Introduction
- Why would we want to do this?
- What does it look like?
- How are we going to do it?
- The completed script
- Summary
Index
Authors:
Elizabeth Gandy
is a Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering at the University
of Sunderland’s School of Computing and Technology. She has
taught on a number of degree courses and has used JavaScript
extensively, both in private companies and whilst lecturing.
Dr Simon Stobart
is a Principal Lecturer at the University of Sunderland’s
School of Computing and Technology and is currently responsible
for coordination and management of taught postgraduate programmes
within the School of Computing and Technology. He is an experienced
author with this being the sixth textbook that he has written.
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