Dell’Aringa T. - JavaScript for Breakfast. Crunching Scripts for Your Coffee Table [2005, PDF, ENG] + Code

Introduction................................................................................................................................................. 3
About Tom Dell’Aringa ............................................................................................................................... 3
Prologue: Becoming a master developer............................................................................................. 4
Basic ingredients – javascript for beginners ..................................................................................... 7
Javascript zero to hero.......................................................................................................................................7
How to debug javascript ..................................................................................................................................17
Two dimensional arrays and other goodies....................................................................................................25
Objects.......................................................................................................................................................... 34
Building a javascript object .............................................................................................................................34
Scripting the select object.................................................................................................................................41
Scripting the select: moving things around ....................................................................................................49
Scripting the select; going further....................................................................................................................58
Scripting the select: finishing up ........................................................................................................................68
The date object...................................................................................................................................................78
Forms............................................................................................................................................................. 86
Scripting forms...................................................................................................................................................86
Javascripting usable forms................................................................................................................................93
Javascript: disabling and enabling form fields dynamically.......................................................................101
Advanced forms...................................................................................................................................... 108
Multi page forms on one page .......................................................................................................................108
Validating forms: a javascript validation class .........................................................................................120
Email address and password validation..........................................................................................................129
Formatting user form data .............................................................................................................................138
Scripting radio buttons without tears. ............................................................................................................148
Scripting checkboxes .......................................................................................................................................157
Taking it further with dhtml .................................................................................................................. 170
Modifying page elements on the fly .................................................................................................................170
Working with the event listener........................................................................................................................177
Spicing up data tables with highlighting rows...............................................................................................184
Real-world javascript ........................................................................................................................... 193
Cookie handling ..............................................................................................................................................193
The javascript date picker ...............................................................................................................................201
The javascript news ticker ...............................................................................................................................216
DMXZONE ..................................................................................................................................................... 225