JavaScripting fundamentals

Concentrika poppy

About the course

This course is designed to teach Web developers how to enhance their Web pages with JavaScript. Through hands-on exercises requiring writing a number of JavaScript's, students will learn the essentials of objects, properties, events, and functions. At the end of the course, you will be able to:-

Describe what JavaScript can do
Tweak an existing JavaScript for a particular need
Describe the basic rules of JavaScript syntax and usage
Manage window creation and form validation
The training is very much hands-on, so expect to create highly functional works of art yourself!

Prerequisites

Delegates should have a solid knowledge of HTML and be comfortable coding HTML forms.

Duration

2 days

1. JavaScript overview	• What is JavaScript?; • Adding JavaScript's to your Web page • Specifying the JavaScript version • JavaScript and HTML comments • Script placement
2. JavaScript essentials	• Rules of the JavaScript • Defining and calling a function • Events and event handlers • Scripting event handlers • Variables • The if conditional statements • The if-else conditional statement
3. Object extensions for datatypes	• String • Array • Date • Math
4. Object extensions for the windowing environment	• Alert • Document.write • Confirm • Prompt • Location • Refresh • Status • Control the appearance of a window • Parameters
5. The frame object
6. The form object
7. The browser object