JavaScript Tutorials

Unobtrusive Javascript

A five-chapter javascript tutorial that focuses on adding javascript to your pages in a manner that keeps it as separate as possible from the page content. Also available in German.

Javascript tutorials

These tutorials are about JavaScript and its use for client-side Web programming.

JavaScript tutorials

14 tutorials in all covering everyting from basic display, forms and form validation, to the dom and dhtml techniques.

Indispensable JavaScript Tutorials

This looks like a pretty comprehensive site with javascript tutorials including an introduction to Dynamic HTML.

JavaScript Tutorial

This site has a javascript tutorial that covers the basics such as variables as well as events, functions, arrays, loops and using the noscript tag.

Jeanine Meyer's Academic Activities: JavaScript

This page includes examples and tutorials for JavaScript including many popular javascript topics such as image swap, coin toss, slide show, ramdon image on loading, bouncing ball, calendar and much more.

Voodoo's Inroduction to JavaScript

This is available in a number of languages and can be downloaded in different formats.

JavaScript School

An excellent site from the same people who provide the CSS School at W3Schools. Topics from beginner to advanced, great examples and a quiz. There is also a reference area with information on objects such as string, math and date and their methods.

EchoEcho.Com Tutorials: Javascript Tutorial

You can use this tutorial either as a complete introduction or as an A-Z reference to JavaScript.

Javascript Tutorial

This tutorial introduces JavaScript, a language you can use to embed commands in an HTML document. This article assumes no prior knowledge of programming, but does assume HTML familiarity.

JavaScript Primer

An introduction to JavaScript and the Document Object. It includes a Getting Started section, explanation of functions, objects and a FAQ.

JavaScript Objects

This is a table of the most commonly used JavaScript objects, with all of their properties, methods, and event handlers from the good people at ProjectCool.

JavaScript Objects and Operators

JavaScript objects are defined here, along with their properties, methods, and event handlers.

JavaScript Tutorials

JavaScript tutorials from beginner to advanced.

Free JavaScript Learning Center Tutorial

This is a Free Beginning JavaScript Course / Tutorial where you can learn to make your own scripts for drop-down menus, clocks, rollovers, slide shows, scrolling messages, pop-up windows, cookies, and more. No programming experience is necessary.

Form Validation Made Easy

Cross-browser and IE-specific client-side form validation.

Javascript Learning Center

This class is intended for you if you would like to go beyond what basic HTML has to offer and add some functionality to your site using JavaScript.

Javascript Tutorials

These Javascript tutorials are intended to get beginners up and running with the language

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JavaScript tutorial

JavaScript Tips and Tricks

How to: Keep Background Fixed When Page Scrolls, Call More Than One Function From An Event, Make Window Pop Under,Set Window Size and Position, Bring Window To Front Periodically, Put Scrollbar On Left Instead Of Right and a bunch of other JavaScript tips.

JavaScript Tutorial for Programmers

Part of the Web Developer's Virtual Library, the JavaScript Tutorial for Programmers is an introduction to the terminology, syntax, and methodology of JavaScript.

JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming Part 2

In the second instalment of his two-part tutorial, Ryan explores Arguments, the Prototype property and Constructors. Improve your skills in JavaScript OOP with this complete introduction.

JavaScript Tutorial

Includes some java information and some html stuff.

JavaScript for the Total Non-Programmer

This tutorial will take you step by step through the fundamentals of Javascript. You will learn how to write functions, use data from text boxes, create IF-THEN conditionals, program loops, etc.

JavaScript Tutorial for Programmers

This JavaScript tutorial is aimed primarily at those who have had at least some exposure to another programming language

JScript Language Reference

JScript documentation at Microsoft.

JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming Part 1

Yes, JavaScript is a powerful language, not just something that's handy for image rollovers and other corny, flashy effects. However, very few people who have used JavaScript realize its capabilities.

Michael Schrenk's JavaScript Animation Tutorial

Covers browser issues, preloading and swapping images, and handling events - includes example scripts.

Beginning JavaScript Tutorials

A bunch of JavaScript tutorials here.

JavaScript Source Code

jsCode.com

Index of JavaScripts with categories including Alerts and Prompts, Background Effects, Email Related, Form Related, Images and Slide Shows, Links and Buttons, Menus and Navigation, Mouse Tricks and many more.

A1 JavaScripts

More free scripts than you can shake a stick at.

Free JavaScripts

A bunch of free scripts by category.

Free Scripts

Free cut and paste JavaScript examples for your web pages.

JavaScript for the World Wide Web Script Examples

This page gives you access to all of the scripts in the book, listed by chapter and task names.

The JavaScript Planet

Hundreds of free scripts here. There are now 789 JavaScripts available including topics like clocks, cookies, timers, menus and redirection, games, various effects in javascript and dhtml including the ever-annoying mouse trails.

Free JavaScripts

General information and a number of different scripts in categories.

DevScripts

JavaScript Scripts, Code Snippets and Code Samples

JavaScript Source Code

Lots of free JavaScripts at Code Beach.

JavaScript Forums

JavaScript Workshop Forums

Also DHTML, CSS and Web Design topics.

JavaScript Forum

JavaScript forum at WebDeveloper.

JavaScript Forum Home Page

JavaScript forum at JGuru.

DMXzone JavaScript Forum

Javascript forum.

JavaScript Forum

Free registration required to post.

The JavaScript Forum

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JavaScript FAQs

irt.org Knowledge Base JavaScript FAQs

Many topics in this JavaScript faq.

Intranet Journal Intranet FAQ

JavaScript/JScript faq.

JavaScripter.net FAQ

Well organized, hierarchical JavaScript faq.

JavaScript FAQ

JavaScript faq at JGuru.

JavaScript Mini-FAQ

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JavaScript Books

Quirksmode - ppk on JavaScript pages

This is not a book properly speaking, but the pages on quirksmode organized to follow the book ppk on javascript by Eric Meyer.

Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours serves as an easy-to-understand tutorial on both scripting basics and JavaScript itself ...

Core JavaScript Guide (version 1.5)

JavaScript is Netscape's cross-platform, object-based scripting language. This book explains everything you need to know about using core JavaScript.

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

This is the complete second edition which is obviously a little out of date but still has much useful information.

Core JavaScript Reference (vesion 1.5)

This book is a reference manual for the core JavaScript language for version 1.5.

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide Sample

One sample chapter about the DOM.

JavaScript Design Sample Chapter

Chapter 2: An Orientation to JavaScript

Beginning JavaScript Sample Chapter

One sample chapter.

Beyond HTML Goodies Sample Chapter

One sample chapter abouit forms.

Sample Chapters

Four sample chapter from the JavaScript Sourcebook.

Designing with JavaScript, 2nd Edition Sample Chapter

One sample chapter about browsers.

JavaScript Articles

Universal JavaScript Rollovers

An article that is an effective tutorial for the popular Javascript technique.

Using JavaScript To Control Forms

This article explains some of the JavaScript techniques that can be used to improve HTML forms. There are many techniques, mainly based on validating form fields, including checking that a field has been filled in.

Using JavaScript's Built-in Objects

In this column, we'll tell you what they are and how to use them

Introduction to Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform, Backwardly Compatible JavaScript

This TechNote gives an overview of the tools, TechNotes, articles, and other resources on the Netscape site and elsewhere which will help you build Dynamic HTML pages which reach the widest possible audience.

Creating a Cross-Browser (DOM) Expandable Tree

This article will focus on building a JavaScript tree. The target browsers for this tree are Internet Explorer 5.0+ and Netscape 6.1+

JavaScript and Forms

Use JavaScript to access forms and manipulate data.

Javascript Frame Navigation

How to load frame in certain order and loading multiple frames in a single click

A Cross-Browser DOM Document Wrapper

This article will focus on creating a single DOM Document interface for developers to use in both Internet Explorer 5.0+ (Windows) and Mozilla (The Mozilla browser itself, or Netscape 6.1+).

Dynamically Resizing Images

In this article we are going to investigate how to dynamically resize an image.

Ajax Tutorials and Libraries

Free Ajax Scripts Directory  

A collection of free ajax scripts and tutorials with demos so you can test them out.

Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials

This is a list of helpful ajax programming tutorials found around the web.

60 More AJAX Tutorials

This is another ajax programming blog entry by the same guy who listed 30 useful ajax programming tutorials. Many of the listed tutorials come with ajax source code.

W3 Schools AJAX Tutorial

An AJAX tutorial from the helpful people at W3Schools.

10-Week Free AJAX Programming (with Passion!) Online Course

The first session of this free online AJAX course is already underway, but there are slides and various other resources available. This is a Java site so the AJAX course ultimately involves JavaServer Faces and AJAX integration.

Ajax in Action

There are two sample chapters and a 22-minute screencast on ajax available for free at the site for the book (source code appears to be available too). You will need to register with an email to see the screencast though.

ASP.NET Atlas

Atlas is a free framework from Microsoft for adding Ajax to ASP.NET pages.

Yahoo! User Interface Library

This is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license.

Google Web Toolkit

This is a java software development kit that lets you build AJAX applications like Google Earth and Gmail. You write your program in Java, and the GWT compiler converts your Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.

Guide to Using AJAX and XMLHttpRequest from WebPasties

This is an Ajax articles that shows you how to use Ajax to automatically fill in form fields with the city and state based on the zip code that the user enters into another field.

Mastering Ajax, Part 1: Introduction to Ajax

This is an introductory Ajax article at IBM.

Mastering Ajax, Part 2

Part two of this ajax series covers making asynchronus requests with javascript and ajax.

Getting Started with Ajax

This article at A List Apart is an excerpt from the book Web Design in a Nutshell and covers using ajax with innerHTML and Nodes to manipulate page content dynamically.

Creating a MySQL connection with PHP/AJAX

This is a short ajax tutorial on opening a connection to MySql using ajax.

Sarissa

Sarissa is a cross-browser ECMAScript library for client side XML manipulation, including loading XML from URLs or strings, performing XSLT transformations, XPath queries and more. Supported: Gecko (Mozilla, Firefox etc), IE, KHTML (Konqueror, Safari

NAJAX

This package can be used to call PHP classes on the Web server side from Javascript code in Web pages. It uses AJAX technology to submit HTTP requests from Javascript to pass call parameters and collect and process the responses.

Rico

Rico provides a very simple interface for registering Ajax request handlers as well as HTML elements or JavaScript objects as Ajax response objects. Multiple elements and/or objects may be updated as the result of one Ajax request

xajax

xajax is an open source PHP class library that allows you to easily create powerful, web-based, Ajax applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. Applications developed with xajax can asynchronously call server-side PHP functions and update content without reloading the page

Sajax

Sajax is an open source tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework � also known as XMLHTTPRequest or remote scripting � as easy as possible. Sajax makes it easy to call PHP, Perl or Python functions from your webpages via JavaScript without performing a browser refresh

DWR

DWR is a Java open source library which helps developers wanting to write web sites that include AJAX technology. It allows code in a web browser to use Java functions running on a web server as if it was in the browser.

AjaxAnywhere

AjaxAnywhere turns any set of existing JSP components into AJAX-aware components without a complex JavaScript coding. Simply separate your web page into multiple zones, and use AjaxAnywhere to refresh only those zones that needs to be updated.

How To Use AJAX

Kris Hadlock explains how to use AJAX in a real-world situation and how you can assess its value in a project. By the time you finish reading this article, you'll know what AJAX is as well as where, why, and how to use it.

Very Dynamic Web Interfaces

This article explores the use of JavaScript and the XMLHttpRequest object.

Ajax Programming

This Wikipedia article has some general information about Ajax programming including example sites using ajax.

Ajax Tutorial

This point of this article is not to debate the merits of one approach over another, but to introduce ajax in a way that is simple, yet powerful enough to be useful. The author uses php, xml and javascript.

AJAX:Getting Started

This article at the Mozilla developer center guides you through the AJAX basics and gives you two simple hands-on examples to get you started.

Rasmus 30 second AJAX Tutorial

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Using the XML HTTP Request object

Ajax articles that is a short tutorial with ajax examples.

AJAX: Instant Tutorial

More of a short article than a tutorial on how to make a call to an http server get content and load it into your existing page without having to refresh the whole page.

A Simpler Ajax Path

This ajax article looks at some ways to handle server-side errors to make debugging less of a headache. It uses the example of a html form that posts to a server-side Ruby script.

The Hows and Whys of Degradable Ajax

Includes an online example and downloadable code (php is used server-side).

Ajax Tutorial: Ajax What Is It Good For?

Walks through the basics of Ajax and culminates in the building of a little Ajax powered Fading Image Gallery application.

Remote Scripting with AJAX,

This two-part series of articles covers remote scripting using the AJAX XMLHttpRequest protocol. Part one walks through an example application that demonstrates how to implement the protocol, while part two shows how to create a usable interface.

An Introduction To Ajax

This articles is an introduction to ajax programming and using the DWR java library.

Developing AJAX Applications the Easy Way

This article demonstrates the use of DWR, a Java open source library, to create a multi-user web-based chat site. It demonstrates how simple it is to integrate JavaScript in the web browser with Java on the server.

Ajax on Rails

This article introduces the incredibly easy-to-use Ajax support that is part of the Ruby on Rails web application framework.

Ajax Mistakes

A list of the many mistakes developers using Ajax often make.