Java Script

Learn javascript easy steps:

 

• 1. JavaScript - a Brief Introduction IMI PRINCE www.newsvelley.blogspot.com
• 2. What is JavaScript• Object based (not object oriented) programming language – very limited object creation – a set of pre-defined objects associated with • HTML document structure – many HTML tags constitute JS Objects • Browser functionality – provides a limited API to Browser functionality
• 3. Where did it come from• Originally called LiveScript at Netscape – started out to be a server side scripting language for providing database connectivity and dynamic HTML generation on Netscape Web Servers – Netscape decided it would be a good thing for their browsers and servers to speak the same language so it got included in Navigator – Netscape in alliance w/Sun jointly announced the language and its new name Java Script – Because of rapid acceptance by the web community Microsoft forced to include in IE Browser
• 4. Browser compatibility• For the most part Java Script runs the same way in all popular browsers• There are many areas where there are slight differences in how Java Script will run• there will be a separate set of slides addressing these differences.
• 5. JavaScript…Java ?• There is no relationship other than the fact that Java and JavaScript resemble each other (and C++) syntactically• JavaScript is pretty much the de-facto standard for client-side scripting (Internet Explorer also provides VBScript & JScript)• In Netscape browsers there is an API that allows JavaScript and Java applets embedded in the same page to converse
• 6. What can it be used for• Some pretty amazing things…. – Text animation – graphic animation – simple browser based application – HTML forms submission – client-side forms data validation (relieving the server of this task) – web site navigation
• 7. What do I need to get started• A web browser – Netscape Navigator 4.x or later – MS Internet Explorer 3.x or later• A text Editor – Wordpad/Notepad – Vi, Emacs
• 8. Process• Open your text editor• create a file containing html and Javascript• save as text file with file type .htm or .html• open your browser• click on file, open file – locate the file you just created• open file in browser
• 9. Putting JavaScript into your HTML• in an external file – collect commonly used functions together into external function libraries on the server • added benefit of privacy from curious users• in-line with your HTML• as an expression for an HTML tag attribute• within some HTML tags as Event Handlers
• 10. <SCRIPT>…</SCRIPT>• <SCRIPT language=…. src=……></SCRIPT>• The <SCRIPT> tag indicates to the browser the beginning of an embedded script; </SCRIPT> indicates the end of an embedded script.• the “language” attribute indicates the script processor to be used• the “src” attribute indicates the URL of a file on the server containing the script to be embedded
• 11. Scripts• Since scripts are placed in line with with HTML older browsers will attempt to render them as text.• To preclude this hide them in side of an HTML comment . <!-- -->• for JavaScript comments use // or /* */
• 12. <SCRIPT>• <SCRIPT LANGUAGE=“JavaScript”>• <!-- start hiding code from old browsers>• Script• Code• Goes• Here• // Stop Hiding code -->• </SCRIPT>
• 13. Object Hierarchy window history document location link link anchor layer form applet image area text radio button fileUpload select textarea checkbox reset option password submit
• 14. Objects• window - the current browser window• window.history - the Netscape history list• window.document - the html document currently in the browser client area• window.location - the browser location field• window.toolbar - the browser toolbar• window.document.link - an array containing all of the links in the document• window.document.anchor - an array of all the anchor points in the document
• 15. Objects (more…)• Window.document.layer - a named document layer• window.document.applet - a named java applet area• window.document.image- a named image tag• window.document.area - a named area• window.document.form - a named form or the default form• ect, ect
• 16. A few examples...• window.location = “http://www.yahoo.com” – will take you to the specified URL (like a goto)• window.history.back() – back() is a method on history – will be like clicking the back button in Nav 3 – in Nav 4 will take you back to prev window• window.history.goto(1) – takes you back to first URL in history array
• 17. The Object Model• It is very important to understand the object model• each object has its own properties, some of which are read only some of which you can set directly by assignment (as location)• each object also has a set of behaviors called methods
• 18. Object Model = Text Object HTML text tag B l u r () defaultValue form name Select() type focus() value Red - gettable and settable handleEvent
• 19. Object Event Handlers• Most objects respond to asynchronous, user generated events through predefined event handlers that handle the event and transfer control to a user written event handling function• Each object has particular events that they will respond to• the way you specify an event handler is by adding an additional attribute to the HTML tag that specifies the particular handler• <input name=bt1 type=button value=ok onClick=“acb();”>
• 20. Events• onAbort• onBlur• onChange• onClick• onError• onFocus• onLoad• onMouseOut• onMouseOver• onReset• onSelect• onSubmit• onUnload
• 21. onAbort• Activated when a user aborts the loading of an image <img name=ball src=images/ball.gif onAbort=“alert(‘You missed a nice picture’)”>
• 22. onBlur• Used with frame, select, text, textarea and window objects• invoked when an object loses the focus• use with select, text and textarea for data validation
• 23. onChange• Used with select, text and textarea objects• use instead of onBlur to validate only if a value has changed <form> Color: <select onChange=“processSelection()”> <option value=“R”>Red <option value=“G”>Green <option value=“B”>Blue </select> </form>
• 24. onClick• Used with button, checkbox,link, radio, reset, and submit objects. <input type=button name=btn1 value=“Click Me” onClick=“alert(‘button was clicked’;” >
• 25. onError• Used with image and window objects to invoke a handler if an error occurs while an image or window is loading.• Setting window.onerror = null will prevent users from seeing JavaScript generated errors
• 26. onFocus • Used with frame, select, text, textarea and window objects. • Just the opposite of onBlur; i.e. invoked when the object gets focus.<body bgcolor=“lightgrey” onBlur=“document.bgColor=‘black’ onFocus=“document.bgColor=‘white’” >
• 27. onLoad• Used with window, frame and image objects (use with <body ….><frameset ….> and <img ...>) <img name=spinball src=images/spinball.gig onLoad=“startAnimation(this)”>
• 28. onMouseOut and onMouseOver• Used with area and link objects• user moves mouse off of an area or link <map name=flower> <area name=top coords=“0,0,200,300 href=“javascript:displayMessage()” onMouseOver=“self.status=‘when you see this message click your left mouse button’ ; return true” onMouseOut=“self.status = ‘’ ; return true”>
• 29. onReset• Used with form objects <form onReset=“alert(‘the form has been reset’)” >
• 30. onSelect• Used with text and textarea objects• run some JavaScript whenever a user selects a piece of text in a text or textarea object <input type=text name=line onSelect=“showHelp()” >
• 31. onSubmit• Use with form objects to run a handler whenever a form has been submitted.• Useful to validate all fields prior to actual submission
• 32. onUnload• Just like onLoad but the handler is run when the window/frame is exited <body onUnload=“cleanup()” >