Preface xv
Before You Begin xxiii
Chapter 1: Introduction 1
1.1 Introduction 2
1.2 History of the Internet and World Wide Web 3
1.3 World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) 5
1.4 Web 2.0 5
1.5 Key Software Trend: Object Technology 7
1.6 JavaScript: Object-Based Scripting for the Web
8
1.7 Browser Portability 9
1.8 Web Resources 9
Chapter 2: Introduction to XHTML
10
2.1 Introduction 11
2.2 Editing XHTML 12
2.3 First XHTML Example 12
2.4 W3C XHTML Validation Service 15
2.5 Headings 15
2.6 Linking 16
2.7 Images 19
2.8 Special Characters and Horizontal Rules 22
2.9 Lists 24
2.10 Tables 27
2.11 Forms 31
2.12 Internal Linking 38
2.13 meta Elements 40
2.14 Web Resources 42
Chapter 3: Cascading Style Sheets™
(CSS) 43
3.1 Introduction 44
3.2 Inline Styles 45
3.3 Embedded Style Sheets 46
3.4 Conflicting Styles 49
3.5 Linking External Style Sheets 52
3.6 Positioning Elements 54
3.7 Backgrounds 58
3.8 Element Dimensions 59
3.9 Box Model and Text Flow 61
3.10 Media Types 65
3.11 Building a CSS Drop-Down Menu 67
3.12 User Style Sheets 69
3.13 CSS 3 73
3.14 Web Resources 73
Chapter 4: JavaScript: Introduction to
Scripting 74
4.1 Introduction 75
4.2 Simple Program: Displaying a Line of Text in a Web
Page 76
4.3 Modifying Our First Program 79
4.4 Obtaining User Input with prompt Dialogs 84
4.5 Data Types in JavaScript 90
4.6 Arithmetic 90
4.7 Decision Making: Equality and Relational Operators
91
4.8 Web Resources 95
Chapter 5: JavaScript: Control Statements
I 96
5.1 Introduction 97
5.2 Control Statements 97
5.3 if Selection Statement 98
5.4 if…else Selection Statement 99
5.5 while Repetition Statement 103
5.6 Counter-Controlled Repetition 104
5.7 Formulating Algorithms: Sentinel-Controlled
Repetition 106
5.8 Formulating Algorithms: Nested Control Statements
109
5.9 Assignment Operators 112
5.10 Increment and Decrement Operators 113
5.11 Web Resources 116
Chapter 6: JavaScript: Control Statements
II 117
6.1 Introduction 118
6.2 Essentials of Counter-Controlled Repetition 118
6.3 for Repetition Statement 120
6.4 Examples Using the for Statement 124
6.5 switch Multiple-Selection Statement 128
6.6 do…while Repetition Statement 133
6.7 break and continue Statements 135
6.8 Labeled break and continue Statements 138
6.9 Logical Operators 140
Chapter 7: JavaScript: Functions
145
7.1 Introduction 146
7.2 Functions 146
7.3 Programmer-Defined Functions 147
7.4 Function Definitions 147
7.5 Random Number Generation 152
7.6 Example: Game of Chance 157
7.7 Another Example: Random Image Generator 163
7.8 Scope Rules 165
7.9 JavaScript Global Functions 167
7.10 Recursion 168
7.11 Recursion vs. Iteration 172
Chapter 8: JavaScript: Arrays 173
8.1 Introduction 174
8.2 Arrays 174
8.3 Declaring and Allocating Arrays 175
8.4 Examples Using Arrays 176
8.5 Random Image Generator Using Arrays 183
8.6 References and Reference Parameters 184
8.7 Passing Arrays to Functions 185
8.8 Sorting Arrays 188
8.9 Multidimensional Arrays 190
8.10 Building an Online Quiz 194
Chapter 9: JavaScript: Objects
197
9.1 Introduction 198
9.2 Introduction to Object Technology 198
9.3 Math Object 201
9.4 String Object 202
9.5 Date Object 213
9.6 Boolean and Number Objects 218
9.7 document Object 219
9.8 window Object 220
9.9 Using Cookies 225
9.10 Multipage HTML and JavaScript Application 229
9.11 Using JSON to Represent Objects 237
Chapter 10: Document Object Model (DOM): Objects and
Collections 238
10.1 Introduction 239
10.2 Modeling a Document: DOM Nodes and Trees 239
10.3 Traversing and Modifying a DOM Tree 242
10.4 DOM Collections 253
10.5 Dynamic Styles 255
10.6 Summary of the DOM Objects and Collections 261
Chapter 11: JavaScript: Events
263
11.1 Introduction 264
11.2 Registering Event Handlers 264
11.3 Event onload 267
11.4 Event onmousemove, the event Object and this
268
11.5 Rollovers with onmouseover and onmouseout 273
11.6 Form Processing with onfocus and onblur 277
11.7 Form Processing with onsubmit and onreset 280
11.8 Event Bubbling 282
11.9 More Events 284
11.10 Web Resources 285
Chapter 12: XML and RSS 286
12.1 Introduction 287
12.2 XML Basics 287
12.3 Structuring Data 290
12.4 XML Namespaces 297
12.5 Document Type Definitions (DTDs) 300
12.6 W3C XML Schema Documents 304
12.7 XML Vocabularies 310
12.8 Extensible Stylesheet Language and XSL
Transformations 314
12.9 Document Object Model (DOM) 324
12.10 RSS 342
12.11 Web Resources 349
Chapter 13: Ajax-Enabled Rich Internet
Applications 350
13.1 Introduction 351
13.2 Traditional Web Applications vs. Ajax Applications
352
13.3 Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) with Ajax
353
13.4 History of Ajax 355
13.5 “Raw” Ajax Example Using the XMLHttpRequest Object
356
13.6 Using XML and the DOM 361
13.7 Creating a Full-Scale Ajax-Enabled Application
366
13.8 Dojo Toolkit 379
13.9 Web Resources 388
Appendix A: XHTML Special Characters
389
Appendix B: XHTML Colors 390
Appendix C: JavaScript Operator Precedence
Chart 393
C.1 Operator Precedence Chart 393
Index 395
Paul J. Deitel and Dr. Harvey M. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized programming languages authoring, corporate training, and Internet business development organization. The Deitels have written many international best-selling programming languages books that millions of people worldwide have used to master Internet and web programming, C, C++, Java™, C#, XML, Visual Basic®, Visual C++®, Perl and Python.
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