Introduction to JavaScript Scripting

							ExecuTrain Course Outline
Introduction to JavaScript
Scripting
EKT075902
1 Day

Description
Students will learn how to use JavaScript to enhance their Web pages.


Prerequisites
Solid knowledge of HTML, solid knowledge of standard programming techniques, some knowledge of object-
based programming techniques.

Students enrolling in this course should have a solid knowledge of HTML, solid knowledge of standard
programming techniques, and some knowledge of object-based programming techniques.


Performance-based objectives
Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate
learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
       Understand what JavaScript is, what it can do, and how it works
       Use JavaScript to display messages in the Netscape status bar, display the current date, and display and
        dynamically update the current time
       Use JavaScript to create scrolling text banners and to create a RoloURL to access URLs from a list
       Use JavaScript to validate then submit user-entered HTML form data
       Use JavaScript to generate an HTML table to display a monthly calendar in its own window
       Use JavaScript to manage the final multiframe JavaScript Central! home page




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Outline
Getting started with JavaScript
    JavaScript: What is it?
    JavaScript: What can it do?
    JavaScript: How does it work?
JavaScript scripting basics, part 1
    Displaying messages in the Netscape status bar
    Displaying the current date
    Displaying and dynamically updating the current
      time
JavaScript scripting basics, part 2
    Creating scrolling text banners
    Creating a RoloURL to access URLs from a list
Validating user-entered data
    Validating user-entered text data
    Validating user-entered numeric data
    Validating user-entered check box data
    Enabling the Surveys Submit button
Generating tables and windows
    Generating an HTML table to display a monthly
      calendar
    Displaying the current month in the calendar
      table
    Enabling users to display other months
    Displaying the calendar in its own window
Managing frames
    Laying out the final multiframe JavaScript
      Central! page
    Displaying documents in windows and frames
    Creating Back and Forward frame-history
      navigation buttons
Appendix A: JavaScript scripting reference




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