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DHTML Utopia:
Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM

Table Of Contents

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0. Introduction
   • Introduction
   • Who Should Read This Book?
   • What’s In This Book?
   • Whither XHTML?
   • The Book’s Website
     • The Code Archive
     • Updates and Errata
   • The SitePoint Forums
   • The SitePoint Newsletters
   • Your Feedback
   • Acknowledgements
1. DHTML Technologies
   • HTML Starting Points
     • Step up to Valid HTML
     • Step up to Semantic HTML
   • Adding CSS
     • Simple CSS Example
   • Adding JavaScript
     • Simple JavaScript Example
     • Get Some Tools!
   • Further Reading
   • Summary
2. The Document Object Model
   • The Origins of the DOM
   • What is the DOM?
     • The Importance of Valid HTML
   • Walking DOM Trees
     • Finding the Top of the Tree
     • Getting an Element from the Tree
     • Walking from Parents to Children
   • What to do with Elements
     • Changing Element Attributes
     • Changing Text Nodes
     • Changing Style Properties
   • Bigger DOM Tree Changes
     • Moving Elements
     • Throwing Away Elements
     • Creating Elements
     • Copying Elements
   • Making an Expanding Form
   • Making Modular Image Rollovers
     • Sample HTML Page
   • Summary
3. Handling DOM Events
   • About Elements and Events
     • Common Events
     • Hooking Code to Events
     • Making Events Work Cross-Browser
   • Smart Uses of Events
     • Creating Smarter Links
     • Making Tables More Readable
   • Summary
4. Detecting Browser Features
   • Old-Fashioned Browser Sniffing
   • Modern DOM Feature Sniffing
     • Which DOM Features Should We Test?
     • Where Should We Test for DOM Features?
     • Testing Non-DOM Features
   • Sniffing at Work: scrollImage
     • Setting Up the Page
     • Demonstrating the DHTML Effect
     • How the Code Works
     • clientX and clientY Problems
     • Browser Detection You Can’t Avoid
     • Calculating Screen Positions
   • Summary
5. Animation
   • Tastefulness and Usability
   • Animation Basics
     • The setTimeout Function
     • The setInterval Function
   • Handling Errors
     • When to use try and catch
     • The body onerror Handler
   • Scriptless Animation with GIFs
   • Movement Example: Rising Tooltips
     • Creating Special Tooltip Content
     • Designing the DHTML Library
     • Animating the Content
     • Full Rising Tooltips Example Listing
   • Summary
6. Forms and Validation
   • Reasons for Form Validation
     • Storing Clean Data
     • Defending Against Security Exploits
     • Improving User Interactivity
   • Simple Client-Side Validation
     • Using Regular Expressions
     • Connecting Regular Expressions to Fields
     • Preparing Quality Error Messages
     • Validation Processing
     • Checking on Submission
   • Client-Server Coordination
     • Dangers of Validating on the Client Only
     • Full Example: Server Fallback Validation
   • Improving Form Usability
     • Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
     • How to Find Scripts
     • Type-Ahead Drop-Down Lists
   • Summary
7. Advanced Concepts and Menus
   • Creating Menu Content
     • Create Semantic Menu Content
     • Styling the Menu’s Layout
     • Styling the Menu’s Appearance
     • Hiding the Secondary Content
   • Making the Menu Work
     • Advanced CSS Menu Alternatives
     • Making Submenus Appear
     • Adding Animation
     • The Benefit of Object-Based Programming
   • Summary
8. Remote Scripting
   • Problems with Frames
   • Remote Scripting Methods
     • Using iframe
     • Example: Autoforms
     • Hidden Cookie Updates
     • Example: Name Resolution
     • XMLHTTP
     • Example: Checking Usernames
     • Other Client-Server Options
   • Drawing Code from Servers
     • Example: Learning about Beer
     • Planning the DHTML Beer Pages
     • Generating the Starting Page from Data
     • Fetching HTML Fragments
     • Fetching and Running JavaScript
   • Summary
9. Communicating With The Server
   • Communicating With The Server
     • Example: Managing Files
     • Specifying the File Manager
     • Planning the Technology
     • Listing Files and Folders
     • Server Control Commands
     • Implementing Drag-and-Drop
     • Expanding and Collapsing Lists
   • Using XML-RPC
     • Calling XML-RPC APIs
     • Example: Weblog Post Editor
   • Summary
10. DOM Alternatives: XPath
    • Introducing XPath
      • Applying XPath to XML
      • XPath Learning Resources
    • Example: Parsing RSS Feeds
      • About RSS 1.0
      • Constructing Simple XPaths
      • Adding XML Namespaces
      • Designing the Blogroll
      • Building the Scripts
    • Summary

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