JavaScript and Ajax Visual QuickStart Guide

• Getting Acquainted with JavaScript
• Start Me Up!
• Language Essentials
• Working with Images
• Frames, Frames, and More Frames
• Working with Browser Windows
• Form Handling
• Forms and Regular Expressions
• Handling Events
• JavaScript and Cookies
• Introducing CSS
• Objects and the DOM
• Making Your Pages Dynamic
• Applied JavaScript
• Introducing Ajax
• Ajax Toolkits
• Bookmarklets

• Getting Acquainted with JavaScript
  • What JavaScript Is
  • JavaScript Isn't Java
  • Where JavaScript Came From
  • What JavaScript Can Do
  • What JavaScript Can't Do
  • What Is Ajax?
  • The Snap-Together Language
  • Handling Events
  • Values and Variables
  • Assignments and Comparisons
  • Writing JavaScript-Friendly HTML
  • What Tools to Use?
• Start Me Up!
  • Where to Put Your Scripts
  • About Functions
  • Using External Scripts
  • Putting Comments in Scripts
  • Alerting the User
  • Confirming a User's Choice
  • Prompting the User
  • Redirecting the User with a Link
  • Using JavaScript to Enhance Links
  • Working with Referrer Pages
• Language Essentials
  • Around and Around with Loops
  • Passing a Value to a Function
  • Detecting Objects
  • Working with Arrays
  • Working with Functions That Return Values
  • Updating Arrays
  • Using Do/While Loops
  • Calling Scripts Multiple Ways
  • Using Multi-level Conditionals
  • Handling Errors
• Working with Images
  • Creating Rollovers
  • Creating More Effective Rollovers
  • Building Three-State Rollovers
  • Triggering Rollovers from a Link
  • Making Multiple Links Change a Single Rollover
  • Working with Multiple Rollovers
  • Creating Cycling Banners
  • Adding Links to Cycling Banners
  • Building Wraparound Slideshows
  • Displaying a Random Image
  • Cycling Images with a Random Start
• Frames, Frames, and More Frames
  • Keeping a Page out of a Frame
  • Forcing a Page into a Frame
  • Forcing a Site into a Frame
  • Setting a Target
  • Creating and Loading a Dynamic Frame
  • Sharing Functions between Frames
  • Storing Information in Frames
  • Loading Multiple Frames at Once
  • Working with Iframes
  • Loading Iframes with JavaScript
• Working with Browser Windows
  • Opening a New Window
  • Loading Different Contents into a Window
  • Opening Multiple Windows
  • Opening Multiple Windows Simultaneously
  • Updating One Window from Another
  • Creating New Pages with JavaScript
  • Closing a Window
  • Opening Windows in a Specified Location
  • Moving Windows to a Specified Location
• Form Handling
  • Select-and-Go Navigation
  • Changing Menus Dynamically
  • Making Fields Required
  • Checking Fields against Each Other
  • Identifying Problem Fields
  • Putting Form Validation into Action
  • Working with Radio Buttons
  • Setting One Field with Another
  • Validating Zip Codes
  • Validating Email Addresses
• Forms and Regular Expressions
  • Validating an Email Address with Regular Expressions
  • Validating a File Name
  • Extracting Strings
  • Formatting Strings
  • Formatting and Sorting Strings
  • Formatting and Validating Strings
  • Replacing Elements using Regular Expressions
• Handling Events
  • Handling Window Events
  • Mouse Event Handling
  • Form Event Handling
  • Key Event Handling
• JavaScript and Cookies
  • Baking Your First Cookie
  • Reading a Cookie
  • Showing Your Cookies
  • Using Cookies as Counters
  • Deleting Cookies
  • Handling Multiple Cookies
  • Displaying "New to You" Messages
• Introducing CSS
  • Saying It with Style
  • Styles with Class
  • Changing Fonts with CSS
  • Checking Your ID
  • Distinguished Links
  • Embedding Styles in Styles
  • Adding Background Images
  • Positioning Absolutely
• Objects and the DOM
  • About Node Manipulation
  • Adding Nodes
  • Deleting Nodes
  • Deleting Specific Nodes
  • Inserting Nodes
  • Replacing Nodes
• Making Your Pages Dynamic
  • Putting the Current Date into a Web Page
  • Working with Days
  • Customizing a Message for the Time of Day
  • Displaying Dates by Time Zone
  • Converting Military Time to A.M./P.M.
  • Creating a Countdown
  • Moving an Object in the Document
  • Date Methods
• Applied JavaScript
  • Using Sliding Menus
  • Adding Pull-Down Menus
  • A Slideshow with Captions
  • A Silly Name Generator
  • A Bar Graph Generator
  • Style Sheet Switcher
• Introducing Ajax
  • Ajax: Pinning It Down
  • Reading Server Data
  • Parsing Server Data
  • Refreshing Server Data
  • Previewing Links with Ajax
  • Auto-Completing Form Fields
• Ajax Toolkits
  • Dragging and Dropping Page Elements
  • Adding a Calendar to Your Page
  • Adding a 2-up Calendar to Your Page
  • Using the Container Utility
  • Adding Animation Effects
  • Implementing the Logger Control for Debugging
• Bookmarklets
  • Your First Bookmarklet
  • Changing a Page's Background Color
  • Changing a Page's Styles
  • Web-safe Colors
  • Word Lookups
  • Viewing Images
  • Displaying ISO Latin Characters
  • Converting RGB Values to Hex
  • Converting Values
  • A Bookmarklet Calculator
  • Validating Pages
  • Appendix A. JavaScript Genealogy and Reference
  • JavaScript Versions
  • ECMAScript
  • Browsers and JavaScript
  • Object Flowchart
  • The Big Object Table
  • Appendix B. JavaScript Reserved Words
  • Appendix C. Cascading Style Sheets Reference
  • Appendix D. Where to Learn More
  • Finding Help on the Web
  • Books