JavaScript Level 1

Course Fee: $597.00
Course Time: 2 Days, 9am - 4pm

Objectives

• Recognize the types of enhancements JavaScript can make to Web pages to make them more engaging to the Web user, identify how and where JavaScript can be placed in a Web page, and use the JavaScript error-handling feature of your browser to find and correct scripting errors.
• Describe the basic concepts of the JavaScript language: objects, event handling, and functions.
• Work with object references and control structures.
• Write the JavaScript code to swap images that respond to a mouse click, display images that correspond to the mouse rolling over a link, and automatically cycle through a series of images to create a Web page slide show.
• Solve the challenge of cross-browser incompatibility by displaying a different Web page, with different enhancements, for both Navigator and Internet Explorer; and write the JavaScript code to change the style and positioning attributes of Web page elements, while a page is loaded in either browser.
• Write the JavaScript code to dynamically load pages into frames, and load new pages into customized windows.
• Write JavaScript applications for processing and validating user-entered data on Web page forms.

Course content

JavaScript: The What, Where, and How

• Investigating JavaScript Effects
• Entering JavaScript into a Web Page
• Handling Errors in JavaScript

JavaScript Basics

• JavaScript’s Built-in Objects
• Event Handling
• Functions and Variables

Object References and Control Structures

• Object References
• Control Structures and Code Formatting
• Web Page Navigation with the Select Object

Interactive Images

• Swapping I mages in Response to an onClick Event
• Image Rollovers
• Automating Dynamic Image Swapping

Dynamic Styles and Positioning

• Dealing with Browser Differences
• Changing Styles Dynamically
• Dynamic Positioning-Another Way

Windows and Frames

• Creating Frames
• Changing the Contents of a Frame Using JavaScript
• Loading pages into New Windows with JavaScript

Form Data Verification (optional)

• Processing Form Elements: An Overview
• Validating Data with Functions
• Calculating Numeric Values
• Scripting onSubmit and onReset Events