Chapter 1. Getting Acquainted with JavaScript

• What JavaScript Is
• JavaScript Isn't Java
• Where JavaScript Came From
• What JavaScript Can Do
• What JavaScript Can't Do
• What Is Ajax?
• The Snap-Together Language
• Handling Events
• Values and Variables
• Assignments and Comparisons
• Writing JavaScript-Friendly HTML
• What Tools to Use?

Chapter 2. Start Me Up!

• Where to Put Your Scripts
• About Functions
• Using External Scripts
• Putting Comments in Scripts
• Alerting the User
• Confirming a User's Choice
• Prompting the User
• Redirecting the User with a Link
• Using JavaScript to Enhance Links
• Working with Referrer Pages

Chapter 3. Language Essentials

• Around and Around with Loops
• Passing a Value to a Function
• Detecting Objects
• Working with Arrays
• Working with Functions That Return Values
• Updating Arrays
• Using Do/While Loops
• Calling Scripts Multiple Ways
• Using Multi-level Conditionals
• Handling Errors

Chapter 4. Working with Images

• Creating Rollovers
• Creating More Effective Rollovers
• Building Three-State Rollovers
• Triggering Rollovers from a Link
• Making Multiple Links Change a Single Rollover
• Working with Multiple Rollovers
• Creating Cycling Banners
• Adding Links to Cycling Banners
• Building Wraparound Slideshows
• Displaying a Random Image
• Cycling Images with a Random Start

Chapter 5. Frames, Frames, and More Frames

• Keeping a Page out of a Frame
• Forcing a Page into a Frame
• Forcing a Site into a Frame
• Setting a Target
• Creating and Loading a Dynamic Frame
• Sharing Functions between Frames
• Storing Information in Frames
• Loading Multiple Frames at Once
• Working with Iframes
• Loading Iframes with JavaScript

Chapter 6. Working with Browser Windows

• Opening a New Window
• Loading Different Contents into a Window
• Opening Multiple Windows
• Opening Multiple Windows Simultaneously
• Updating One Window from Another
• Creating New Pages with JavaScript
• Closing a Window
• Opening Windows in a Specified Location
• Moving Windows to a Specified Location

Chapter 7. Form Handling

• Select-and-Go Navigation
• Changing Menus Dynamically
• Making Fields Required
• Checking Fields against Each Other
• Identifying Problem Fields
• Putting Form Validation into Action
• Working with Radio Buttons
• Setting One Field with Another
• Validating Zip Codes
• Validating Email Addresses

Chapter 8. Forms and Regular Expressions

• Validating an Email Address with Regular Expressions
• Validating a File Name
• Extracting Strings
• Formatting Strings
• Formatting and Sorting Strings
• Formatting and Validating Strings
• Replacing Elements using Regular Expressions

Chapter 9. Handling Events

• Handling Window Events
• Mouse Event Handling
• Form Event Handling
• Key Event Handling

Chapter 10. JavaScript and Cookies

• Baking Your First Cookie
• Reading a Cookie
• Showing Your Cookies
• Using Cookies as Counters
• Deleting Cookies
• Handling Multiple Cookies
• Displaying "New to You" Messages

Chapter 11. Introducing CSS

• Saying It with Style
• Styles with Class
• Changing Fonts with CSS
• Checking Your ID
• Distinguished Links
• Embedding Styles in Styles
• Adding Background Images
• Positioning Absolutely

Chapter 12. Objects and the DOM

• About Node Manipulation
• Adding Nodes
• Deleting Nodes
• Deleting Specific Nodes
• Inserting Nodes
• Replacing Nodes

Chapter 13. Making Your Pages Dynamic

• Putting the Current Date into a Web Page
• Working with Days
• Customizing a Message for the Time of Day
• Displaying Dates by Time Zone
• Converting Military Time to A.M./P.M.
• Creating a Countdown
• Moving an Object in the Document
• Date Methods

Chapter 14. Applied JavaScript

• Using Sliding Menus
• Adding Pull-Down Menus
• A Slideshow with Captions
• A Silly Name Generator
• A Bar Graph Generator
• Style Sheet Switcher

Chapter 15. Introducing Ajax

• Ajax: Pinning It Down
• Reading Server Data
• Parsing Server Data
• Refreshing Server Data
• Previewing Links with Ajax
• Auto-Completing Form Fields

Chapter 16. Ajax Toolkits

• Dragging and Dropping Page Elements
• Adding a Calendar to Your Page
• Adding a 2-up Calendar to Your Page
• Using the Container Utility
• Adding Animation Effects
• Implementing the Logger Control for Debugging

Chapter 17. Bookmarklets

• Your First Bookmarklet
• Changing a Page's Background Color
• Changing a Page's Styles
• Web-safe Colors
• Word Lookups
• Viewing Images
• Displaying ISO Latin Characters
• Converting RGB Values to Hex
• Converting Values
• A Bookmarklet Calculator
• Validating Pages