The JavaScript Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks

Using a cookbook approach, The JavaScript Anthology will show you how to apply JavaScript to solve over 101 common Web Development challenges. You'll discover how-to:

# Optimize your code so that it runs faster
# Create Ajax applications with the XmlHttpRequest object
# Validate web forms to improve usability
# Take control of your web pages with the DOM
# Ensure that your JavaScript code is accessible
# Create slick drop-down menu systems

Included in this book is extensive coverage of DHTML and Ajax, including how-to create and customize advanced effects such as draggable elements, dynamically sorting data in a Web Browser, advanced menu systems, retrieving data from a Web Server using XMLHttpRequest and more.

The JavaScript Anthology also includes extensive coverage of object oriented coding, efficient script design, accessibility, and cross-browser issues. Best of all, you'll get download access to all the code used in the book, so you can put the scripts to use instantly.

ISBN: 0975240269
Publisher: SitePoint
Date: 02 March, 2006
Author: Cameron Adams, James Edwards