This guide provides a description of the core JavaScript language and both the legacy and standard DOMs implemented in web browsers. It includes sophisticated examples that show you how to handle common tasks, like validating form data, working with cookies and creating portable DHTML animations. It also contains detailed reference sections that cover the core JavaScript API, the legacy client-side API and the W3C standard DOM API, documenting every JavaScript object, method, property, constructor, constant, function and event handler in those APIs. This updated edition provides complete coverage of the W3C DOM standard (Level 1 and 2), while retaining material on the legacy Level 0 DOM for backward compatibility.

JavaScript is not a cookbook, although plenty of example code is include; nor is it an introduction for beginners, although every aspect of JavaScript is covered from the ground up. It is - what it sets out to be - definitive reference guide for the JavaScript programmer. - Richard Drummond, LinuxFormat, June 2002

David Flanagan is a computer programmer who spends most of his time writing about JavaScript and Java. His other books with O'Reilly include JavaScript Pocket Reference, Java in a Nutshell, Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell, and Java Examples in a Nutshell. David has a degree in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives with his wife and son in the U.S. Pacific Northwest between the cities of Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia.