JavaScript

Course details

Module One: Introduction

• The differences between client-side and server-side JavaScript
• What client-side JavaScript can do, and what it cannot?
• Advantages of scripting in the client.
• Scripting versus cross-browser and cross-platform scripting.

Module Two: Getting started with scripting

• Integrating JavaScript programs into HTML documents.
• Using comments inside script regions.
• Using the script language attribute.

Module Three: An introduction to objects

• Internal objects (string, number, array etc)
• HTML-reflected objects, e.g. form objects, frame, link, window and document objects.
• Variables.
• Arrays.
• User-defined objects
• JavaScript operators: increment, decrement, assignment, greater than/less than etc.

Module Four: Statements

• Using JavaScript statements
• Flow-control statements
• Iteration statements
• Functions, arguments and parameters

Module Five: Events

• JavaScript’s event-system.
• OnMouseOver, onMouseOut, onLoad, onUnLoad, onClick events.
• Handling hyperlinks.

Module Six: Form processing

• JavaScript’s integration with HTML forms.
• Main form-elements: radio/checkboxes, text fields, text area fields, etc.

Module Seven: Window manipulation

• Creating windowed applications, allowing multiple documents to be updated and manipulated.
• Window validation, opening and closing.
• The opener property, opening windows, determining if windows are open/closed.
• Changing window URLs, writing data in to windows, and closing windows.

Module Eight: Frameset manipulation

• Manipulating multiple-framed documents
• Creating navigational controls and multiple-document applications.
• Dynamic frame-creation and variable scoping.
• Naming frames.
• Accessing frames.
• Removing frames.
• Writing to a frame.