"Makes JavaScript wizardry more accessible than ever for experts and beginners alike."
—Jesse James Garrett, creator of the term "Ajax"

View a sample chapter, Chapter 2: Using Variables and Built-In Functions to Update Your Web Pages Automatically

Visit the book's companion site for code samples, images, and additional resources. For updates and corrections, visit the errata page.

With JavaScript, you can add interactivity, animation, and other tricks to your web pages quickly. But this isn't just a book of scripts for you to cut and paste into your HTML, only to find out later that nothing works as you'd expected. Using real-world examples as the starting point, author thau! walks you step by step through various scripts and explains how they produce the effects you want.

Because no discussion of JavaScript today is complete without coverage of Ajax, this thoroughly updated second edition includes new chapters on Ajax, so you can get up to speed with this valuable method for creating truly dynamic web pages. This second edition of the best-selling The Book of JavaScript also features revised appendices and new examples throughout to reflect today's web environment. Inside, you'll learn to:

• Work with frames, forms, cookies, and alarms
• Use events to react to a user's actions
• Perform image swaps and rollovers
• Program your own functions to produce customized solutions
• Store user preferences and build a shopping cart
• Use Dynamic HTML to turn web pages into multimedia applications

If you need to spruce up tired-looking pages, The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition will help take your site from bland to brilliant.

BONUS: Includes a complete reference to all JavaScript objects and functions, including examples, properties, methods, handlers, and browser compatibility!