JavaScript: The Missing Manual

JavaScript: The Missing Manual

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<div><p>JavaScript is an essential language for creating modern, interactive websites, but its complex rules challenge even the most experienced web designers. With <i>JavaScript: The Missing Manual</i>, you'll quickly learn how to use JavaScript in sophisticated ways -- without pain or frustration -- even if you have little or no programming experience.</p><p>JavaScript expert David McFarland first teaches you the basics by having you build a simple program. Then you'll learn how to work with jQuery, a popular library of pre-built JavaScript components that's free and easy to use. With jQuery, you can quickly build modern, interactive web pages -- without having to script everything from scratch!</p><ul><li>Learn how to add scripts to a web page, store and manipulate information, communicate with the browser window, respond to events like mouse clicks and form submissions, and identify and modify HTML</li><li>Get real-world examples of JavaScript in action</li><li>Learn to build pop-up navigation bars, enhance HTML tables, create an interactive photo gallery, and make web forms more usable</li><li>Create interesting user interfaces with tabbed panels, accordion panels, and pop-up dialog boxes</li><li>Learn to avoid the ten most common errors new programmers make, and how to find and fix bugs</li><li>Use JavaScript with Ajax to communicate with a server so that your web pages can receive information without having to reload</li></ul></div>