JavaScript: Visual QuickStart Guide, 8th Edition

This task-based, visual-reference guide has been fully revised and uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to give beginning and intermediate scripters what they need to know to keep their skills up-to-date. Readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the programming language, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. In this updated eighth edition, readers will find new information on using frameworks and libraries–such as jQuery–and modern coding techniques.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Getting Acquainted with JavaScript
Chapter 2 Start Me Up!
Chapter 3 Your First Web App
Chapter 4 Working with Images
Chapter 5 Windows and Frames
Chapter 6 Form Handling
Chapter 7 Forms and Regular Expressions
Chapter 8 Handling Events
Chapter 9 JavaScript and Cookies
Chapter 10 Objects and the DOM
Chapter 11 Making Your Pages Dynamic
Chapter 12 Applied JavaScript
Chapter 13 Introducing Ajax
Chapter 14 Toolkits, Frameworks, and Libraries
Chapter 15 Designing with jQuery
Chapter 16 Building on jQuery
Chapter 17 Bookmarklets

Appendix A: JavaScript Genealogy and Reference
Appendix B: JavaScript Reserved Words
Appendix C: Cascading Style Sheets Reference
Appendix D: Where to Learn More