JavaScript Introduction

This 2-day Introduction course will give you a comprehensive grounding in JavaScript, the most popular scripting language for the web. With our help, you will learn how simple commands can be used to add interactive features that bring static web pages to life. Together, we will produce scripts to detect actions by our users and then respond by making dynamic changes to the appearance or the content of our pages.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand the JavaScript language and the Document Object Model
• Detect and respond to user actions
• Manipulate an object's position and visibility on a web page
• Validate form input data
• Fix coding errors, trigger alerts, and add coding comments
• Use Cascading Style Sheets
• Write JavaScript that is compatible across browsers

The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

• Create Basic JavaScript Script
• Types of Scripts
• The Script Tags
• Components of JavaScript
• The Alert Statement
• Browser Support
• Script Errors
• Identify Scripting Guidelines
• Comments
• Line Terminators

• Display Messages on the Status Bar
• Objects
• Types of Objects
• Client-Side Objects
• Core Objects
• Object Hierarchy
• Instances
• The Window Object
• Window Object Properties
• Window Object Methods
• Event Handler
• Mouse Events
• Open a Linked Page in a New Window

• Write Content to a Document
• The Document Object
• Document Properties
• Document Methods
• Document Event Handlers
• Create a Dynamic Document
• Document Object Model
• DHTML
• Image Rollover