Client-Side JavaScript Reference

This book is a reference manual for the JavaScript language, including both core and client-side JavaScript for version 1.3. JavaScript is Netscape's cross-platform, object-based scripting language for client and server applications.

Contents

New Features in this Release

About this Book

New Features in this Release

What You Should Already Know

JavaScript Versions

Where to Find JavaScript Information

Document Conventions

Part 1 Object Reference

Chapter 1 Objects, Methods, and Properties

Anchor

Applet

Area

Array

Boolean

Button

Checkbox

Date

document

event

FileUpload

Form

Frame

Function

Hidden

History

Image

java

JavaArray

JavaClass

JavaObject

JavaPackage

Layer

Link

Location

Math

MimeType

navigator

netscape

Number

Object

Option

Packages

Password

Plugin

Radio

RegExp

Reset

screen

Select

String

Style

Submit

sun

Text

Textarea

window

Chapter 2 Top-Level Properties and Functions

escape

eval

Infinity

isFinite

isNaN

NaN

Number

parseFloat

parseInt

String

taint

undefined

unescape

untaint

Chapter 3 Event Handlers

onAbort

onBlur

onChange

onClick

onDblClick

onDragDrop

onError

onFocus

onKeyDown

onKeyPress

onKeyUp

onLoad

onMouseDown

onMouseMove

onMouseOut

onMouseOver

onMouseUp

onMove

onReset

onResize

onSelect

onSubmit

onUnload

Part 2 Language Elements

Chapter 4 Statements

break

comment

continue

do...while

export

for

for...in

function

if...else

import

label

return

switch

var

while

with

Chapter 5 Operators

Assignment Operators

Comparison Operators

Using the Equality Operators

Arithmetic Operators

% (Modulus)

++ (Increment)

-- (Decrement)

- (Unary Negation)

Bitwise Operators

Bitwise Logical Operators

Bitwise Shift Operators

Logical Operators

String Operators

Special Operators

?: (Conditional operator)

, (Comma operator)

delete

new

this

typeof

void

Part 3 LiveConnect Class Reference

Chapter 6 Java Classes, Constructors, and Methods

JSException

JSObject

Plugin

Part 4 Appendixes

Appendix A Reserved Words

Appendix B Color Values

Appendix C Netscape Cookies

Index