DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model

Name: DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model
Rating: 3.6666667461395264 (12 reviews)

Jeremy Keith

Nov 2006 · Apress

3.7

12 reviews

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368

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We know from the success of titles such as Web Standards Solutions, Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation, and The Web Designer's Reference that web designers are increasingly concerned with making sites that don't just look pretty, but are also built using current best practices.

There are three main technologies married together to create usable, standards-compliant web designs: XHTML for data structure, Cascading Style Sheets for styling your data, and JavaScript for adding dynamic effects and manipulating structure on the fly using the Document Object Model.

This book is about the latter of the three. DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model gives you everything you need to start using JavaScript and the Document Object Model to enhance your web pages with client-side dynamic effects. Jeremy Keith starts off by giving you a basic crash course in JavaScript and the DOM, then moves on to provide you with several real-world examples built up from scratch, including dynamic image galleries and dynamic menus. Then, he shows you how to manipulate web page style using the CSS DOM, and create markup on the fly.

Ratings and reviews

3.7

12 reviews

A Google user

January 14, 2011

Terrific book. It assumes just a beginner's knowledge in Javascript, and based on that only, goes to great lengths to educate a novice about the arcane intricacies of DOM scripting, which, for all its power and the flexibility it offers, isn't really covered in great details in any Javascript book I know. This is not meant to teach you other Javascript frameworks or toolkits like jQuery, MooTools or Dojo, but it does exactly what it says on the tin, it acquaints you to the power of DOM. Fundamental concepts are repeated over and over again (a feature absolutely essential for a neophyte), to the point that you become really comfortable with that idea before imbibing the next one, so there never will be a steric hindrance in your mind! Plus he is astute enough to guess all weird questions that might crop up in the reader's mind while going through a particular topic, and does a brilliant job in addressing them lucidly. This book will make you love DOM and teach you how to manipulate it to add never-thought-of flexibility to your web-design solutions, trust me. 5 star book!

A Google user

September 21, 2008

Faire du javascript propre

About the author

Jeremy Keith is a web developer living and working in Brighton, England. Working with the web consultancy firm Clearleft (Clearleft.com), he enjoys building accessible, elegant websites using the troika of web standards: XHTML, CSS, and the DOM. His online home is Adactio.com. Jeremy is also a member of the WebStandards.org, where he serves as joint leader of the DOM Scripting Task Force. When he's not building websites, Jeremy plays bouzouki in the alt.country band Salter Cane (SalterCane.com). He is also the creator and curator of one of the web's largest online communities dedicated to Irish traditional music, TheSession.org.

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