Duration
3 days
Overview
Learn how to make your website elicit the “Wow!” response and make your web pages more interactive and user friendly. Participants will learn how to code Javascript from scratch using nothing more than a text editor and a web browser (such as Firefox or Microsoft Internet Explorer).
Course Prerequisite
Participants should have an understanding of how to use a web browser and HTML in order to gain maximum benefit from this course.
Course Objective
At course completion, participants will have a solid foundation in Javascript syntax and applications.
Chapter 1 - 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
- Writing JavaScript-Friendly HTML
- What Tools to Use?
Chapter 2 - 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
- Using Multi-Level Conditionals
- Handling Errors
Chapter 3 - Your First Web App
- 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
- Combining JavaScript and CSS
- Checking State
- Working with String Arrays
Chapter 4 - 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
Chapter 5 - Windows and Frames
- Keeping a Page out of a Frame
- Setting a Target
- Loading Iframes with JavaScript
- Working with Iframes
- Creating Dynamic Iframes
- Sharing Functions between Documents
- Opening a New Window
- Loading Different Contents into a Window
Chapter 6 - 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
Chapter 7 - 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
Chapter 8 - Handling Events
- Handling Window Events
- Mouse Event Handling
- Form Event Handling
- Key Event Handling
Chapter 9 - Objects and the DOM
- About Node Manipulation
- Adding Nodes
- Deleting Nodes
- Deleting Specific Nodes
- Inserting Nodes
- Replacing Nodes
- Writing Code with Object Literals
Chapter 11 - 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 24-Hour Time to 12-Hour Time
- Creating a Countdown
- Hiding and Displaying Layers
- Moving an Object in the Document
- Date Methods
Chapter 12 - Applied JavaScript
- Using Sliding Menus
- Adding Pull-Down Menus
- Enhancing Pull-Down Menus
- A Slideshow with Captions
- A Silly Name Generator
- A Bar Graph Generator
- Style Sheet Switcher
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