Brilliant JavaScript

If you are designing websites and need an introduction to programming with the scripting language of the Web, Brilliant Javascript will show you how to use basic javascript programming to to improve the functionality and design of your webpages, validate forms, detect browsers, create cookies, and much more.

Summary

JavaScript is a critical component of nearly all web pages and web applications, and is the most popular scripting language on the internet, working in all major browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape, and Opera.

It is a very powerful language but often overlooked as such. For years it has been used primarily for two things – validating form entries, and image rollovers. Yet there is much more under the hood. JavaScript is as powerful and comprehensive as any other development language.

JavaScript gives HTML designers a programming tool- HTML authors are normally not programmers, but JavaScript is a scripting language with a very simple syntax! Almost anyone can put small "snippets" of code into their HTML pages. Brilliant JavaScript will take the reader through the necessary introductory material, and build on this to present practical applicable methods involving text, maths and numbers, and much more. Further tips will be presented in boxouts and text alerts .

The book will follow a progression of knowledge; however will be modular in approach. A reader can jump right to the task(s) they need to learn and use. The step by step approach will make it easy to follow how JavaScript is written and implemented – something that many developers struggle with when it comes to JavaScript’s cryptic syntax.

What you need to know and how to do it

Brilliant guides allow you to find the information that you need easily and without fuss. Using a highly visual, step-by-step approach, Brilliant books will solve your technology problems and guide you through essential tasks, providing you with exactly what you need to know, just when you really need it.

Spend less time reading and more time doing with a visual step-by-step approach to JavaScript programming

Brilliant JavaScript provides the quick, easy-to-access information that you need...

• Accessible full colour design throughout
• Detailed index to help you find exactly what you need to know
• Practical tasks presented on one or two pages
• Numbered steps guide you through each task or problem
• Numerous screenshots illustrate each step
• "See Also ..." boxes point you to related tasks and information in the book
• "Did you know?..." sections alert you to relevant expert tips, tricks and advice
• Troubleshooting guide to help you sort out most common problems and queries

Brilliant JavaScript will give you a solid grounding how to use basic JavaScript programming to improve the functionality and design of your web pages, showing you how to…

·        Write and test basic scripts

·        Get started with text and strings

·        Work with numbers and operators

·        Calculate dates and times on your web pages

·        Create, sort and combine arrays

·        Understand and employ validation techniques

·        Apply JavaScript actions

·        Enhance and personalise your web pages

·        Get to grips with text effects

·        Work with images and rollovers

·        Use windows, pages, popups and prompts

About the Author

Ken Bluttman is an experienced programmer and technical writer who has variously worked as a database developer and DBA, as a project manager and trainer, and, of course, as rolled-up sleeves, grinding-out-the-code programmer.