Getting Started With JavaScript Boxes

An introduction to coding in JavaScript. You'll learn how to code a page that dynamically changes background and text color when a link is hovered over. This exercise teaches you about JavaScript Events, Functions, Objects, and Properties. A very good tutorial oriented toward non-programmers.

How to make little pop up boxes that annoy people and how to use these boxes to explore more JavaScript Events.

Learn how to use parameters to send data to your functions and streamline your code.

Learn how to make and use confirm() boxes. These boxes give the viewer two options to pick from. Learn how to detect Boolean values with the IF/ELSE statement -- one of the most powerful statements in JavaScript.

Learn how to use Prompt Boxes to gather data from a viewer and use that data in your web pages.

This lesson explores using the "document.write()" method to write HTML tags for all sorts of neat effects.

A quick review of the principles learned so far including objects, properties, methods, functions, and events.

Make sure you can do these exercises before moving on.

Browsers, Windows, & Frames

Learn how to tell what browser and browser version your viewers are using.

How and why you need to use browser detection. This lesson uses detection based on a browser's name.

How to make pop up windows and close them using JavaScript.

How to size and shape your windows. How to add and remove window features in the windows you open. This includes menu bars, toolbars, even scrollbars.

How to position your pop up window on the screen, as well as, how to shift focus between the parent and child window(s).

How a function coded in one window can change objects in another one.