JavaScript unleashed

• Add interactivity to your Web pages with the latest JavaScript enhancements
• Assemble a comprehensive toolkit of the latest and best tools to meet your scripting needs
• Create complex scripts more easily with the Acadia Infuse JavaScript Editor on the CD-ROM
• Create your own custom JavaScript objects
• Make user events work for your script
• Use style sheets to create a uniform appearance across your site
• Animate your page with billboards, image pushbuttons, fading colors, and other special effects
• Validate visitor data to your site before the data leaves the browser
• Retain visitor information between visits with cookies
• Help visitors navigate your site with dynamic toolbars
• Learn to debug your code with Microsoft Script Debugger and create "safe scripts"
• Overcome browser/version incompatibilities with a handy reference
• Integrate JavaScript and Java with LiveConnect
• Incorporate ActiveX controls
• Add multimedia with LiveAudio and Netscape Plug-Ins
• Move JavaScript to the server side with LiveWire

Table of contents :

Introduction                                       xxix
Part I  Getting Started with JavaScript            3
  1  JavaScript and the World Wide Web             3
  2  How JavaScript and HTML Work Together         31
  3 Assembling Your JavaScript Toolkit             53
  4  Using Acadia Infuse to Create JavaScript      67
  Scripts
Part II  The JavaScript Language                   89
  5  Fundamentals of the JavaScript Language       89
  6  Operators                                     117
  7  Control Structures and Looping                139
  8  Functions                                     159
Part III  JavaScript Objects                       179
  9  The JavaScript Object Model                   179
  10  Handling Events                              217
  11  Navigator Objects                            243
  12  Document Objects                             311
  13  Form Objects                                 337
  14  Built-In Language Objects                    369
  15  Creating Custom JavaScript Objects           403
Part IV  Visual Programming Techniques             425
  16  Creating Special Effects with JavaScript     425
  17  Controlling Layers with JavaScript           445
  18  JavaScript Style Sheets                      461
Part V  Programming Techniques                     485
  19 Site Navigation with JavaScript               485
  20  Forms and Data Validation                    507
  21  Using Client-Side Tables in JavaScript       547
  22  Error Handling and Debugging in JavaScript   565
Part VI  Advanced JavaScript                       595
  23  JavaScript Compatibility Issues              595
  24  JavaScript and Web Security                  609
  25  Cookies and State Maintenance                633
Part VII  JavaScript Connectivity                  659
  26  LiveConnect: Integrating JavaScript and      659
  Java
  27  ActiveX Scripting                            683
  28 Working with Netscape Plug-Ins                705
  29  LiveAudio and Multimedia                     731
Part VIII  Server-Side JavaScript                  747
  30  Server-Side JavaScript Extensions Using      747
  LiveWire
  31  Partitioning Client and Server               775
  Applications
  32  Database Connectivity Using LiveWire         791
Part IX  Appendixes                                825
  A  JavaScript Language Summary                   825
  B  Fundamentals of HTML                          867
  C  Comparing JavaScript with VBScript            913
  D  JavaScript Resources on the Internet          925
  E  Java from a JavaScripter's Perspective        933
Index                                              959