Table of Contents
: Get Going with Web Pages XHTML
Table of Contents
Hello,
XHTML: The New Standard for the Web,
XMl as the “language” of the future,
Advantages of XML,
Disadvantages of XML,
Difference between HTML and XHTML,
Basic structure of an XHTML document,
HTML TIDY, HTML Kit and 1st Page by Evrsoft,
Java, JavaScript, Objects, Properties, and Methods,
The Idiosyncrasies of JavaScript,
Let’s Go: Integrating JavaScript Code in (X)HTML,
Input, Output, and Variables,
Calculating with JavaScript,
Redirection with JavaScript and via Tag,
Simple Redirection,
Timed Redirection,
Redirection via Tag,
Simple Password Protection with the “if” statement,
Making Decisions with “if”,
Comparison Operators,
Decision Making: Reacting to User Input,
The switch Command,
Changing Background Colours,
Redirection,
Programming for Loops,
Looping Another Way: while,
Password Protection with Exit Condition,
JavaScript Functions and Event Handlers,
Defining a Function,
Event Handlers,
Starting with Buttons,
How Can I Call Functions?
Function with Parameters,
JavaScript Inline and External: Navigation Buttons and Links,
Hyperlinks with JavaScript,
The history Object,
Storing JavaScript as Separate Files,
Programming Your Own Windows with JavaScript,
Windows as Remote Control Objects,
Creating Windows “On the Fly”,
Extracting Information from the Surfer and Reacting to it,
The screen Object,
Netscape or Internet Explorer? The Browser Question!
Some Mathematics: Random Numbers with the Math Object,
The Math Object,
Script for the Dice Game,
More Fun with Arrays: Random Links and a Jukebox,
An Overview of Arrays,
The Script for the Random Links,
Abbreviation,
Programming a Jukebox,
Reading Out and Displaying the Date and Time,
XHTML Reference: The Most Important Commands,
General Tags,
Paragraphs, Line Breaks, and
Tags for Simple Text Formatting,
Adding Graphics Files,
Drawing Lines,
Making Lists,
Font Tags,
Adding Sound Files and Videos,
Incorporating and Formatting Moving Text,
Tags for Forms,
Anchors and Hyperlinks,
Tags for Tables,
Tags for Framesets,
Style Sheets: The Most Important Attributes of CSS,
Attributes for Formatting Lists,
Text Allignment,
Formatting Borders and Frames,
Colour and Background Graphics,
Absolute Positioning (Important for DHTML),
Units of Measurement, Colours and Special Characters,
The Most Important Colours,
RGB Colour Codes for CSS,
Codes for Special Characters,
Country Codes for Character Sets,
Hover Links,
Units of Measurement for CSS,
Navigating More Comfortably with Pull-down Menus,
Pull-down Menu with Go Button,
Pull-down Menu with onChange,
Pull-down Menu in a Frameset,
Creating the Frameset,
The Navigation File,
Changing Several Frames at one Time,
Changing Two Frames at Once,
The Hierarchy in Frames,
Further Tips and Tricks for Frames,
More Dynamic, Please: Changing Text and Tickers,
Displaying Changing Text in Form Fields,
Changing Text on the Status Line,
Programming a Ticker: The String Object in Brief,
Typewriter Ticker with the substring() Method,
Evaluating Forms with JavaScript,
What’s Behind CGI,
FormMail as an Alternative to mailto,
The Example: An Order Form in HTML,
Preventing Accidental Reset and Submit,
The confirm() Box,
The Script for Capturing the Events,
Checking Form Field Entries,
Checking Fields to see if Anything was Entered,
Checking the Validity of email addresses,
Calculating the Result,
Mlouseover Effect and Banners,
onMouseover Effects with Hover Links,
Script for a Banner,
Programming and Reading Out Cookies,
Recognizing a Surfer with the Help of Cookies,
The cookie Property, setMonth() and Cookie Syntax,
Reading Out One Cookie from among Many,
DHTML: Addressing CSS Containers and Levels,
Prerequisites for DHTML,
The Example: Animating a Graphic,
Programming Pull-down Menus with DHTML,
Curtain up and …… Butterfly!
Checking JavaScript Code for Errors,
Index