JavaScript
Scripting for the web.
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 Script Types
- Syntax examples
Core Language
- Lexical structure
- Variables and types
- Operators
- Program flow I: if, switch, try
- Program flow II: loops
- Functions
- Object-based programming
- Closures
- Debugging
- Optimization
- Strict Mode
- Shell
- Runtime document manipulation
- Event handling
- W3C event handlers
- Working with the mouse
- Forms
- Images
- Cookies
- LocalStorage
- Design Mode
- Bookmarklets
Client-Server Programming with AJAX
Miscellaneous
Appendices
- Index
- Links
- Bookmarklets
- 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