JavaScript Bible (6th Edition)

JavaScript Bible (6th Edition) is the Chinese translation of the bestselling JavaScript Bible. At about 732 pages and 2.125 million Chinese characters, it is a large reference work and manual systematically explaining client-side JavaScript programming. The book begins with JavaScript's role in the World Wide Web, first explaining the respective places of HTML/XHTML, CSS, server-side programming, and plug-in technologies, helping readers understand where JavaScript sits in the overall web technology stack; it then moves into browser and programming fundamentals, covering how scripts are embedded, the origins of browser compatibility problems, and basic approaches to writing scripts that work across browsers. The main body revolves around the browser Document Object Model (DOM), systematically tracing its development and covering the properties, methods, and event handlers of node and element objects, with descriptions and examples for each category of HTML element object; it also devotes considerable space to dynamically modifying pages through scripts and responding to user actions to achieve common interactions such as form validation, frame control, and dynamic image updating, and specifically introduces Ajax, the technique for dynamic web interaction. Finally it goes deep into the core JavaScript language, including core objects such as String, Math, Date, and Array, along with exception handling and custom objects. The examples are typical and the coverage broad, with chapter exercises and an answer appendix, making it suitable for web developers to study systematically from beginner to advanced levels and to consult over the long term.