Topics in JavaScript and VBScript

Placement of JavaScript in Web Pages - <script> and events, browser compatibility, internal vs. external, head and body, case sensitive

Elements of JavaScript Common to Most Programming Languages - numbers, strings, arrays, functions, conditional statements, loops

Built-in Objects in JavaScript - Date and Math objects

Responding to Events in JavaScript - Event Handling

Client-Side JavaScript - Objects Relating to the Browser

• Window Object

  • alert, confirm, prompt

  • status line messages

  • intervals - executing code after a specified delay

  • navigator object - browser type and version

  • opening and closing new windows

  • location object - going to another location in the same window

  • history object - going forward and backwards

  • frames - loading into multiple windows via JavaScript; array vs. name notation

• Document Object

  • dynamically-generated documents (opening windows, document.write)

  • color, lastModified, referrer properties

  • forms - array vs. name; JavaScript to verify forms; JavaScript to get user input to affect displayed page (e.g. jump menus)

  • images - rollovers, animations

  • stylesheets and DHTML

  • cookies

JavaScript Development Tools

• Netscape Navigator - debugging

• FrontPage2000 and Internet Explorer - Microsoft Script Editor

• Dreamweaver - behaviors

• Others, e.g NetObjects ScriptBuilder

Server Side Scripting with JavaScript and VBScript

• Dynamically-generated web pages

• Linking to databases