Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Getting Started with JavaScript

   Pages 1-16

3. Data and Decisions

   Pages 17-59

4. From DHTML to DOM Scripting

   Pages 61-84

5. HTML and JavaScript

   Pages 85-122

6. Presentation and Behavior (CSS and Event Handling)

   Pages 123-181

7. Common Uses of JavaScript: Images and Windows

   Pages 183-239

8. JavaScript and User Interaction: Navigation and Forms

   Pages 241-298

9. Back-End Interaction with Ajax

   Pages 299-341

10. Data Validation Techniques

    Pages 343-385

11. Modern JavaScript Case Study: A Dynamic Gallery

    Pages 387-414

12. Using Third-Party JavaScript

    Pages 415-450

13. Back Matter

    Pages 451-485

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JavaScript is one of the most important technologies on the web. It provides the means to add dynamic functionality to your web pages and serves as the backbone of Ajax-style web development. Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax is an essential guide for modern JavaScript programming; it's practical but comprehensive. It covers everything you need to know to get up to speed with JavaScript development and add dynamic enhancements to web pages and program Ajax-style applications.

Experienced web developer Christian Heilmann begins gently by giving you an overview of JavaScriptits syntax, good coding practices, and the principles of DOM scripting. Then he builds up your JavaScript toolkit, covering dynamically manipulating markup, changing page styling on the fly using the CSS DOM, validating forms, dealing with images, and much more. Then he takes you to advanced territory, with a complete case study illustrating how many new JavaScript techniques can work together, plus a great introduction to Ajax development.

• Ajax
• CSS
• DOM
• HTML
• JavaScript
• Windows
• XML
• interaction
• navigation
• programming

Christian Heilmann grew up in Germany and, after a year working with people with disabilities through the Red Cross, he spent a year as a radio producer. Beginning in 1997, he worked for several agencies in Munich as a web developer. In 2000, he moved to the U.S. to work for eToys and, after the dot-com crash, he moved to the U.K., where he currently works as a lead developer for Agilisys. He publishes an almost-daily blog at http://wait-till-i.com and runs an article repository at http://icant.co.uk. He is a member of the Web Standards Project's DOM Scripting Task Force.

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