JavaScript Sourcebook

The JavaScript Sourcebook is your total guide to mastering JavaScript. It teaches you absolutely everything you need to know to create complete JavaScript applications and integrate them into HTML pages. The book's unique tiered format makes it easy to get the most out of this dynamic scripting language, regardless of your programming or JavaScript experience.

Step by step, Gordon McComb teaches you both JavaScript fundamentals nad advanced techniques, including:

• JavaScript language syntax, including objects, properties, methods, and functions

• How to write expressions, statements, and entire scripts

• Assembling Java applets into Java programs

• Troubleshooting JavaScript programs

• JavaScript interaction with Frames, CGI, forms, and advanced HTML

• Creating JavaScript programs for Netscape Navigator 3.0

ON THE CD-ROM YOU'LL FIND:

• A library of ready-to-use JavaScript applications and routines

• Many reusable Java components that you can build into your programs

With JavaScript even nonprogrammers can build greater interactivity and multimedia into their Web sites. Now the JavaScript Sourcebook shows you how.

GORDON McCOMB is a writer and consultant specializing in HTML programming, macroscripting, and word processing. He has consulted on several major Internet products, including tools from Quarterdeck and Symantec, and his office automation products have been licensed by Borland and Novell. He is the author of nearly fifty books on computer and electronics topics.

Table of contents

INTRODUCING JAVASCRIPT
What JavaScript Is All About
Stuff You Should Know: Basic Programming
Overview of JavaScript Programming
CORE JAVASCRIPT
Objects
Properties
Methods and Functions
Expressions
Statements
Variables
Events
JAVASCRIPT IN THE REAL WORLD
Defining Functions, Objects, and Methods
How Do I? "Plug and Play" Routines
Fixing Broken JavaScript Programs
Using JavaScript in Frames
Using JavaScript and Forms
EXTENDING JAVASCRIPT
Using JavaScript with Advanced HTML
Using CGI with JavaScript
Working with Java and Netscape Plugs-Ins
Using JavaScript for Sound, Animation, and Graphics
All About HTML
JavaScript Additions in Netscape 3.0
Appendices
Index.