DOM Scripting

1. Front Matter

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2. A Brief History of JavaScript

   • Jeremy Keith, Jeffrey Sambells

   Pages 1-6

3. JavaScript Syntax

   • Jeremy Keith, Jeffrey Sambells

   Pages 7-29

4. The Document Object Model

   • Jeremy Keith, Jeffrey Sambells

   Pages 31-44

5. A JavaScript Image Gallery

   • Jeremy Keith, Jeffrey Sambells

   Pages 45-58

6. Best Practices

   • Jeremy Keith, Jeffrey Sambells

   Pages 59-71

7. The Image Gallery Revisited

   • Jeremy Keith, Jeffrey Sambells

   Pages 73-93

8. Creating Markup on the Fly

   • Jeremy Keith, Jeffrey Sambells

   Pages 95-122

9. Enhancing Content

   • Jeremy Keith, Jeffrey Sambells

   Pages 123-148

10. CSS-DOM

    • Jeremy Keith, Jeffrey Sambells

    Pages 149-174

11. An Animated Slideshow

    • Jeremy Keith, Jeffrey Sambells

    Pages 175-204

12. HTML5

    • Jeremy Keith, Jeffrey Sambells

    Pages 205-226

13. Putting It All Together

    • Jeremy Keith, Jeffrey Sambells

    Pages 227-277

14. Back Matter

    Pages 279-314

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With this second edition of the popular DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model comes a modern revision to update best practices and guidelines. It includes full coverage of HTML5 in a new, dedicated chapter, and details on JavaScript libraries and how they can help your scripting.

The book provides everything you'll need to start using JavaScript and the Document Object Model to enhance your web pages with client-side dynamic effects and user-controlled animation. It shows how JavaScript, HTML5, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) work together to create usable, standards-compliant web designs. We'll also cover cross-browser compatibility with DOM scripts and how to make sure they degrade gracefully when JavaScript isn't available.

DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model focuses on JavaScript for adding dynamic effects and manipulating page structure on the fly using the Document Object Model. You'll start with a crash course in JavaScript and the DOM, then move on to several real-world examples that you'll build from scratch, including dynamic image galleries and dynamic menus. You'll also learn how to manipulate web page styles using the CSS DOM, and create markup on the fly.

If you want to create websites that are beautiful, dynamic, accessible, and standards-compliant, this is the book for you!

• Animation
• Browser
• CSS
• DOM
• HTML5
• Java
• JavaScript

Jeremy Keith is a web developer living and working in Brighton, England. Working with the web consultancy firm Clearleft (Clearleft.com), he enjoys building accessible, elegant websites using the troika of web standards: XHTML, CSS, and the DOM. His online home is Adactio.com. Jeremy is also a member of the WebStandards.org, where he serves as joint leader of the DOM Scripting Task Force. When he's not building websites, Jeremy plays bouzouki in the alt.country band Salter Cane (SalterCane.com). He is also the creator and curator of one of the web's largest online communities dedicated to Irish traditional music, TheSession.org.

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