This book is a guide to JavaScript, a scripting language widely used in web pages and web applications such as email applications. JavaScript is not to be confused with Java, which is quite a separate language for creating stand-alone applications.

This book applies to version 1.6 and later of JavaScript. Multiple versions of JavaScript are covered in this book.

Welcome

• Introduction (Relation to other languages)
• Hello World!
• Placing the code
• Other Places
• Other Script Types

Core Language

• Lexical structure
  • Automatic semicolon insertion (ASI)
  • Reserved words
• Variables and types
  • Numbers
  • Strings
  • Dates
  • Arrays
  • Regular expressions
• Operators
• Control structures
• Functions
  • Anonymous functions
• Object-based programming
  • Objects
  • Constructors and prototypes
  • Inheritance
  • Access control
• Closures
• Debugging
• Optimization
• Strict Mode
• Shell

Document Object Model and Dynamic Websites

• Runtime document manipulation
  • Finding elements
  • Adding elements
  • Changing elements
  • Removing elements
  • Changing element styles
• Event handling
• W3C event handlers
• Working with the mouse
• Forms
• Images
• Cookies
• Design Mode
• Bookmarklets

Client-Server Programming with AJAX

• XMLHttpRequest
• Handling HTML
• Handling JSON
• Handling XML
• Working with files

Miscellaneous

• JScript in Microsoft WSH

Appendices

• Index
• Links
• Useful software tools
• History of JavaScript
• Best practices
• Code structuring
• Generators
• Contributors

Related books

• ActionScript Programming
• Authoring Webpages
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Coding Cookbook: JavaScript
• HyperText Markup Language
• Programming Ajax
• Web Development

Wikimedia

• W:JavaScript
• Wikiversity:Web Design/An Introduction to Programming with JavaScript