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JavaScript Crash Course Index

Don't have time to submerge yourself in Thau's JavaScript tutorial? Cut directly to the chase by clicking on the topic that interests you and jump directly to that section of the tutorial. (But if you really want to become a JavaScript master, you should begin at the beginning.)

Arrays
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  • Introduction
  • Arrays and loops
  • Arrays in the DOM
  • Associative Arrays

    Browser detection
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  • Introduction
  • How to detect browsers
  • Object and Method detection

    Cookies
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  • Introduction
  • Setting Cookies
  • Reading Cookies
  • Reading complicated cookies
  • Reading and writing multiple cookies
  • Saving cookies for later use
  • Path and Domain

    Debugging

    The Document Object Model (DOM)
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  • Introduction
  • More about the DOM
  • The Document Object
  • Using the DOM to swap images

    Forms and Form Elements
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  • Introduction
  • Manipulating Text Field values
  • Text Field Events
  • Form event handlers
  • Checkboxes
  • Radio Buttons
  • Selects

    Frames (see also Windows)

    Functions
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  • Introduction
  • Without Parameters
  • Parameters and Return Values
  • With multiple Parameters

    If-then-else statements
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  • Structure
  • A basic if-then statement
  • An if-then-else shortcut

    Image swapping

    Link Events

    Loops
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  • Introduction
  • Looping passwords
  • While loops
  • For loops
  • Nested loops

    Objects
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  • Introduction
  • Creating your own
  • Object-oriented programming

    Preloading images
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  • Introduction
  • How to Pre-load images

    Strings
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  • Introduction
  • Getting Fancy
  • Substring
  • The Split Method
  • Evaluating Strings

    Timed Events

    Variables
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  • Introduction
  • How to use them
  • var and scope of variables
  • Printing variables for debugging

    Windows
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  • Opening windows using HTML
  • Opening windows using JavaScript
  • Window features
  • Communicating between windows



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