From the Publisher
We know from the success of titles such as Web Standards Solutions, Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation, and the Web Designer''s Reference that web designers are increasingly concerned with making sites that don''t just look pretty, but are also built using current best practices.
There are three main technologies married together to create usable, standards-compliant web designs: XHTML for data structure, Cascading Style Sheets for styling your data, and JavaScript for adding dynamic effects and manipulating structure on the fly using the Document Object Model.
This book is about the latter of the three. DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model gives you everything you need to start using JavaScript and the Document Object Model to enhance your web pages with client-side dynamic effects. Jeremy starts off by giving you a basic crash course in JavaScript and the DOM, then move on to provide you with several real world examples built up from scratch including dynamic image galleries and dynamic menus, and show you how to manipulate web page style using the CSS DOM, and create markup on the fly.
About the Author
Jeremy is a web developer living and working in Brighton, England.
Working with the web consultancy firm Clearleft ( www.clearleft.com
), he enjoys building accessible, elegant websites using the troika
of web standards: XHTML, CSS, and the DOM. His online home is
www.adactio.com. Jeremy is also a member of the
www.webstandards.org where he serves as joint leader of the DOM
Scripting Task Force.
When he''s not building websites, Jeremy plays bouzouki in the
alt.country band Salter Cane ( www.saltercane.com ). He is also the
creator and curator of one of the web''s largest online communities
dedicated to Irish traditional music, www.thesession.org