JavaScript: Browser Scripting Fundamentals

Overview/Description
Using JavaScript, developers can interact with numerous browser objects, create and modify windows and frames, and access and modify form information. This course explores and demonstrates how to use JavaScript to access and modify client-side features of the browser, and as a result to add a degree of interactivity to web sites. Specific topics covered include JavaScript browser objects, windows and frames, event handlers, and forms. This course is one of a series covering the fundamentals of the JavaScript language.

Target Audience
All organizations or individual consultants with a working knowledge of HTML and basic programming concepts, who intend to use JavaScript with HTML to develop interactive web applications that utilize cross-browser client-side scripting.

Expected Duration (hours)
1.5

Lesson Objectives

JavaScript: Browser Scripting Fundamentals

distinguish between key browser objects

recognize how to perform browser version checking using objects, properties, or methods

recognize the meaning of key elements of frame-defining code

recognize how to access variables and functions between frames

recognize how to open a new window with appropriate parameters, in a given scenario

set up a window containing frames with specified code access between them

use the window object to open a new window and change its location

recognize how to connect code to web page events using event handlers

recognize how to create and use form elements to return user-entered values

match form elements to the tags needed to create them

create a form containing HTML elements

set up an event handler