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77-923 Enhancing Web pages with JavaScript

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Enhancing Web pages with JavaScript

Course specifications

Course number: 077 923

Course length: 1 day

Hardware/software required to run this course

A PC-compatible computer, Windows 9x or Windows NT, at least 32 MB Random Access Memory

(RAM), 200 MB hard-disk space (to hold the browsers), and Navigator 4.5x (or higher), Internet

Explorer 4.01 (or higher), or both.

Course description

Overview: Students will learn how to add various JavaScript enhancements to Web sites.

Prerequisites

 

: Intro to Programming, HTML Programming Level 1, Web Development with Cascading

Style Sheets

 

, or equivalent knowledge.

Delivery method: Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured handson

activities.

Benefits: Students will be introduced to the JavaScript programming language and concepts by adding

enhancements to a fictitious, multi-page Web site.

Target student: Students enrolling in this course should understand the basics of how the Internet works,

the basics of HTML, the basics of programming concepts, and the basics of Cascading Style Sheets.

What's next:

 

Enhancing Web pages with JavaScript is the first course in this series. JavaScript

Programming

 

, the next course in this series, teaches students the details of the JavaScript programming

language. Students who want to learn advanced features can take

 

Advanced JavaScript Programming.

Performance-based objectives

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to

evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

 

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, functions,

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 different Web pages for each

browser, and change the style and positioning attributes of Web page elements while a page is

loaded in either browser.

 

Write JavaScript applications for processing and validating user-entered data on Web page

forms.

 

Write the JavaScript code to dynamically load pages into frames, and load new pages into

customized windows.

Course content

Lesson 1: What is JavaScript?

What is JavaScript, and What Can It Do?

How Do I Put JavaScript in My Pages?

Handling Errors in JavaScript

Lesson 2: JavaScript Basics

JavaScript Objects

Event Handling

Functions and Variables

Object References

Java Script Control Structures

Lesson 3: Creating Interactive Images

Demonstrating Dynamic Effects for Images

Swapping Images in Response to an onClick Event

Image Rollovers

Automating Dynamic Image Swapping

Lesson 4: Dynamic Styles and Positioning

Demonstrating Dynamic Styles

Dealing with Browser Differences

Changing Styles Dynamically

Dynamic Positioning—Another Way

Lesson 5: Processing Form Data

Demonstrating Some JavaScript Applications for Forms

A Structure for Processing Form Elements

Checking a Text Box for an Entry

Accessing Selection list Information

Using Check Box Data

Radio Buttons

Calculating Numerical Values

Scripting onSubmit and onReset Events

Lesson 6: Loading Pages into Windows and Frames

Creating Frames for the Zoo’s Information Page

Changing the Contents of a Frame Using JavaScript

Loading Pages into New Windows with JavaScript

 

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