JavaScript: The Missing Manual

JavaScript is an essential language for creating modern, interactive websites, but its complex rules challenge even the most experienced web designers. With JavaScript: The Missing Manual, you’ll quickly learn how to use JavaScript in sophisticated ways — without pain or frustration — even if you have little or no programming experience.

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!

• 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
• Get real-world examples of JavaScript in action
• Learn to build pop-up navigation bars, enhance HTML tables, create an interactive photo gallery, and make web forms more usable
• Create interesting user interfaces with tabbed panels, accordion panels, and pop-up dialog boxes
• Learn to avoid the ten most common errors new programmers make, and how to find and fix bugs
• Use JavaScript with Ajax to communicate with a server so that your web pages can receive information without having to reload

JavaScript是创建现代互动网站的基本语言，但其复杂的规则甚至对最有经验的网页设计师也构成了挑战。使用 JavaScript: The Missing Manual，您将很快学会如何以复杂的方式使用JavaScript，而不会感到痛苦或沮丧，即使您几乎没有编程经验。

JavaScript专家David McFarland首先通过让您构建一个简单的程序来教您基本知识。然后，您将学习如何使用jQuery，jQuery是一个流行的预构建的JavaScript组件库，它是免费且易于使用的。使用jQuery，您可以快速构建现代化的交互式网页，而不必从头开始编写所有内容的脚本！

• 了解如何向网页添加脚本、存储和操作信息、与浏览器窗口通信、响应鼠标单击和表单提交等事件，以及识别和修改HTML
• 获取实际使用中的Java脚本示例
• 学习构建弹出导航栏、增强HTML表格、创建交互式图片库以及使Web表单更易于使用
• 使用选项卡式面板、折叠面板和弹出对话框创建有趣的用户界面
• 学习避免新程序员犯的十个最常见的错误，以及如何查找和修复错误
• 结合使用JavaScript和AJAX与服务器进行通信，以便您的网页无需重新加载即可接收信息