DOM Scripting, 2nd Edition

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!

What you’ll learn

• Apply dynamic behavior to your pages without inserting JavaScript in your markup
• Write scripts that degrade gracefully when JavaScript isn’t available
• Use web standards to ensure cross-browser compatibility
• Harness the power of the DOM to create user-controlled animation
• Also includes an introduction to Ajax

Who this book is for

This book is for web developers wanting to expand their knowledge of the DOM to add interactivity and functionality to their web pages.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. A Brief History of JavaScript
Chapter 2. JavaScript Syntax
Chapter 3. The Document Object Model
Chapter 4. A JavaScript Image Gallery
Chapter 5. Best Practices
Chapter 6. The Image Gallery Revisited
Chapter 7. Creating Markup on the Fly
Chapter 8. Enhancing Content
Chapter 9. CSS-DOM
Chapter 10. An Animated Slideshow
Chapter 11. HTML5
Chapter 12. Putting It All Together
Chapter 13. DOM Scripting Libraries