There are three main technologies married together to create usable, standards-compliant web designs: XHTML for data structure, Cascading Style Sheets for styling your data, and JavaScript for adding dynamic effects and manipulating structure on the fly using the Document Object Model. This book is about the latter of the three.
DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model gives you everything you need to start using JavaScript and the Document Object Model to enhance your web pages with client-side dynamic effects. We start off by giving you a basic crash course in JavaScript and the DOM, then move on to provide you with several real world examples built up from scratch including dynamic image galleries and dynamic menus, and show you how to manipulate web page styles using the CSS DOM, and create markup on the fly.
New material for this edition includes a run through of the most popular JavaScript libraries and their use.
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.
Book Details
- Paperback: 350 pages
- Publisher: friends of ED; 2 edition (December, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430233893
- ISBN-13: 978-1430233893
- File Size: 51.3 MiB
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