Basics of Java Script (JS)

JS - JavaScript
Lecture - 1
Ajay Khatri
Senior Assistant Professor
Acropolis Institute ofTechnology & Research
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Table of Contents
 What is DHTML?
 DHTMLTechnologies
 XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM
 Introduction to JavaScript
 What is JavaScript
 Implementing JavaScript into Web pages
 In <head> part
 In <body> part
 In external .js file

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 JavaScript Syntax
 JavaScript operators
 JavaScript DataTypes
 JavaScript Pop-up boxes
 alert, confirm and prompt
 Conditional and switch statements, loops and
functions
 Document Object Model

DHTML
Dynamic Behavior at the Client Side

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What is DHTML?
 Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
 Makes possible a Web page to react and change
in response to the user’s actions
 DHTML = HTML + CSS + JavaScript
DHTML
XHTML CSS JavaScript DOM

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DTHML = HTML + CSS + JavaScript
 HTML defines Web sites content through
semantic tags (headings, paragraphs, lists, …)
 CSS defines 'rules' or 'styles' for presenting
every aspect of an HTML document
 Font (family, size, color, weight, etc.)
 Background (color, image, position, repeat)
 Position and layout (of any object on the page)
 JavaScript defines dynamic behavior
 Programming logic for interaction with the
user, to handle events, etc.

JavaScript
Dynamic Behavior in a Web Page

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JavaScript
 JavaScript is a front-end scripting language
developed by Netscape for dynamic content
 Lightweight, but with limited capabilities
 Can be used as object-oriented language
 Client-side technology
 Embedded in your HTML page
 Interpreted by theWeb browser
 Simple and flexible
 Powerful to manipulate the DOM

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JavaScript Advantages
 JavaScript allows interactivity such as:
 Implementing form validation
 React to user actions, e.g. handle keys
 Changing an image on moving mouse over it
 Sections of a page appearing and disappearing
 Content loading and changing dynamically
 Performing complex calculations
 Custom HTML controls, e.g. scrollable table
 Implementing AJAX functionality

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What Can JavaScript Do?
 Can handle events
 Can read and write HTML elements and
modify the DOM tree
 Can validate form data
 Can access / modify browser cookies
 Can detect the user’s browser and OS
 Can be used as object-oriented language
 Can handle exceptions
 Can perform asynchronous server calls (AJAX)

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The First Script
first-script.html
<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
alert('Hello JavaScript!');
</script>
</body>
</html>

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Another Small Example
small-example.html
<html>
<body>
document.write('JavaScript rulez!');
</script>
</body>
</html>

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Using JavaScript Code
 The JavaScript code can be placed in:
 <script> tag in the head
 <script> tag in the body – not recommended
 External files, linked via <script> tag the head
 Files usually have .js extension
 Highly recommended
 The .js files get cached by the browser
<script src="scripts.js" type="text/javscript">
<!– code placed here will not be executed! -->
</script>

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JavaScript – When is Executed?
 JavaScript code is executed during the page
loading or when the browser fires an event
 All statements are executed at page loading
 Some statements just define functions that can
be called later
 Function calls or code can be attached as
"event handlers" via tag attributes
 Executed when the event is fired by the browser
<img src="logo.gif" onclick="alert('clicked!')" />

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<html>
<head>
function test (message) {
alert(message);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<img src="logo.gif"
onclick="test('clicked!')" />
</body>
</html>
Calling a JavaScript Function
from Event Handler – Example
image-onclick.html

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Using External Script Files
 Using external script files:
 External JavaScript file:
<html>
<head>
<script src="sample.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
</head>
<body>
<button onclick="sample()" value="Call JavaScript
function from sample.js" />
</body>
</html>
function sample() {
alert('Hello from sample.js!')
}
external-JavaScript.html
sample.js
The <script> tag is always empty.

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JavaScript Syntax
 The JavaScript syntax is similar to C# and Java
 Operators (+, *, =, !=, &&, ++, …)
 Variables (typeless)
 Conditional statements (if, else)
 Loops (for, while)
 Arrays (my_array[]) and associative arrays
(my_array['abc'])
 Functions (can return value)
 Function variables (like the C# delegates)

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DataTypes
 JavaScript data types:
 Numbers (integer, floating-point)
 Boolean (true / false)
 String type – string of characters
var length = 60; // Number
var lastName = "Khatri"; // String
var b = 44.5; // floating-point number
var isReading = true; // yes, I'm reading

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DataTypes
 Arrays
 Associative arrays ( Object)
var my_array = [1, 5.3, "aaa"];
var my_hash = {a:2, b:3, c:"text"}; // Object

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Everything is Object
 Every variable can be considered as object
 For example strings and arrays have member
functions:
var test = "some string";
alert(test[7]); // shows letter 'r'
alert(test.charAt(5)); // shows letter 's'
alert("test".charAt(1)); //shows letter 'e'
alert("test".substring(1,3)); //shows 'es'
var arr = [1,3,4];
alert (arr.length); // shows 3
arr.push(7); // appends 7 to end of array
alert (arr[3]); // shows 7
objects.html

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String Operations
 The + operator joins strings
 What is "9" + 9?
 Converting string to number:
string1 = "fat ";
string2 = "cats";
alert(string1 + string2); // fat cats
alert("9" + 9); // 99
alert(parseInt("9") + 9); // 18

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Arrays Operations and Properties
 Declaring new empty array:
 Declaring an array holding few elements:
 Appending an element / getting the last element:
 Reading the number of elements (array length):
 Finding element's index in the array:
var arr = new Array();
var arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
arr.push(3); //Add Elements
var element = arr.pop(); //Remove last Elements
arr.length;
arr.indexOf(1);

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Standard Popup Boxes
 Alert box with text and [OK] button
 Just a message shown in a dialog box:
 Confirmation box
 Contains text, [OK] button and [Cancel] button:
 Prompt box
 Contains text, input field with default value:
alert("Some text here");
confirm("Are you sure?");
prompt ("enter amount", 10);

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Sum of Numbers – Example
sum-of-numbers.html
<html>
<head>
<title>JavaScript Demo</title>
function calcSum() {
value1 =
parseInt(document.mainForm.textBox1.value);
value2 =
parseInt(document.mainForm.textBox2.value);
sum = value1 + value2;
document.mainForm.textBoxSum.value = sum;
}
</script>
</head>

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Sum of Numbers – Example (2)
sum-of-numbers.html (cont.)
<body>
<form name="mainForm">
<input type="text" name="textBox1" /> <br/>
<input type="text" name="textBox2" /> <br/>
<input type="button" value="Process"
onclick="javascript: calcSum()" />
<input type="text" name="textBoxSum"
readonly="readonly"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>

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JavaScript Prompt – Example
prompt.html
price = prompt("Enter the price", "10.00");
alert('Price + VAT = ' + price * 1.2);

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Greater than
<=
Symbol Meaning
>
< Less than
>= Greater than or equal to
Less than or equal to
== Equal
!= Not equal
Conditional Statement (if)
unitPrice = 1.30;
if (quantity > 100) {
unitPrice = 1.20;
}

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Conditional Statement (if) (2)
 The condition may be of Boolean or integer type:
var a = 0;
var b = true;
if (typeof(a)=="undefined" || typeof(b)=="undefined") {
document.write("Variable a or b is undefined.");
}
else if (!a && b) {
document.write("a==0; b==true;");
} else {
document.write("a==" + a + "; b==" + b + ";");
}
conditional-statements.html

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Switch Statement
 The switch statement works like in C#:
switch (variable) {
case 1:
// do something
break;
case 'a':
// do something else
break;
case 3.14:
// another code
break;
default:
// something completely different
}
switch-statements.html

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Loops
 Like in C#
 for loop
 while loop
 do … while loop
var counter;
for (counter=0; counter<4; counter++) {
alert(counter);
}
while (counter < 5) {
alert(++counter);
} loops.html

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Functions
 Code structure – splitting code into parts
 Data comes in, processed, result returned
function average(a, b, c)
{
var total;
total = a+b+c;
return total/3;
}
Parameters come
in here.
Declaring variables
is optional.Type is
never declared.
Value returned
here.

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Function Arguments
and ReturnValue
 Functions are not required to return a value
 When calling function it is not obligatory to
specify all of its arguments
 The function has access to all the arguments
passed via arguments array
function sum() {
var sum = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < arguments.length; i ++)
sum += parseInt(arguments[i]);
return sum;
}
alert(sum(1, 2, 4)); functions-demo.html

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Document Object Model (DOM)
 Every HTML element is accessible via the
JavaScript DOM API
 Most DOM objects can be manipulated by the
programmer
 The event model lets a document to react when
the user does something on the page
 Advantages
 Create interactive pages
 Updates the objects of a page without reloading it

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Accessing Elements
 Access elements via their ID attribute
 Via the name attribute
 Via tag name
 Returns array of descendant <img> elements of
the element "el"
var elem = document.getElementById("some_id")
var arr = document.getElementsByName("some_name")
var imgTags = el.getElementsByTagName("img")

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DOM Manipulation
 Once we access an element, we can read and
write its attributes
function change(state) {
var lampImg = document.getElementById("lamp");
lampImg.src = "lamp_" + state + ".png";
var statusDiv =
document.getElementById("statusDiv");
statusDiv.innerHTML = "The lamp is " + state";
}
…
<img src="test_on.gif" onmouseover="change('off')"
onmouseout="change('on')" />
DOM-manipulation.html

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Common Element Properties
 Most of the properties are derived from the
HTML attributes of the tag
 E.g. id, name, href, alt, title, src, etc…
 style property – allows modifying the CSS
styles of the element
 Corresponds to the inline style of the element
 Not the properties derived from embedded or
external CSS rules
 Example: style.width, style.marginTop,
style.backgroundImage

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Common Element Properties (2)
 className – the class attribute of the tag
 innerHTML – holds all the entire HTML code
inside the element
 Read-only properties with information for the
current element and its state
 tagName, offsetWidth, offsetHeight,
scrollHeight, scrollTop, nodeType, etc…

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Accessing Elements through
the DOMTree Structure
 We can access elements in the DOM through
some tree manipulation properties:
 element.childNodes
 element.parentNode
 element.nextSibling
 element.previousSibling
 element.firstChild
 element.lastChild

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Accessing Elements through
the DOMTree – Example
 Warning: may not return what you expected
due to Browser differences
var el = document.getElementById('div_tag');
alert (el.childNodes[0].value);
alert (el.childNodes[1].
getElementsByTagName('span').id);
…
<div id="div_tag">
<input type="text" value="test text" />
<div>
<span id="test">test span</span>
</div>
</div> accessing-elements-demo.html

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The HTML DOM Event Model
 JavaScript can register event handlers
 Events are fired by the Browser and are sent to
the specified JavaScript event handler function
 Can be set with HTML attributes:
 Can be accessed through the DOM:
<img src="test.gif" onclick="imageClicked()" />
var img = document.getElementById("myImage");
img.onclick = imageClicked;

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The HTML DOM Event Model (2)
 All event handlers receive one parameter
 It brings information about the event
 Contains the type of the event (mouse click, key
press, etc.)
 Data about the location where the event has
been fired (e.g. mouse coordinates)
 Holds a reference to the event sender
 E.g. the button that was clicked

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The HTML DOM Event Model (3)
 Holds information about the state of [Alt], [Ctrl]
and [Shift] keys
 Some browsers do not send this object, but
place it in the document.event
 Some of the names of the event’s object
properties are browser-specific

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Common DOM Events
 Mouse events:
 onclick, onmousedown, onmouseup
 onmouseover, onmouseout, onmousemove
 Key events:
 onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup
 Only for input fields
 Interface events:
 onblur, onfocus
 onscroll

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Common DOM Events (2)
 Form events
 onchange – for input fields
 onsubmit
 Allows you to cancel a form submission
 Useful for form validation
 Miscellaneous events
 onload, onunload
 Allowed only for the <body> element
 Fires when all content on the page was loaded /
unloaded

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onload Event – Example
 onload event
<html>
<head>
function greet() {
alert("Loaded.");
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="greet()" >
</body>
</html>
onload.html

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Built-in Browser Objects
 The browser provides some read-only data via:
 window
 The top node of the DOM tree
 Represents the browser's window
 document
 holds information the current loaded document
 screen
 Holds the user’s display properties
 browser
 Holds information about the browser

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DOM Hierarchy – Example
window
navigator screen document history location
form
button form
form

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Opening New Window – Example
 window.open()
var newWindow = window.open("", "sampleWindow",
"width=300, height=100, menubar=yes,
status=yes, resizable=yes");
newWindow.document.write(
"<html><head><title>
Sample Title</title>
</head><body><h1>Sample
Text</h1></body>");
newWindow.status =
"Hello folks";
window-open.html

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The Navigator Object
alert(window.navigator.userAgent);
The navigator in the
browser window
The userAgent
(browser ID)
The browser
window

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The Screen Object
 The screen object contains information about
the display
window.moveTo(0, 0);
x = screen.availWidth;
y = screen.availHeight;
window.resizeTo(x, y);

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Document and Location
 document object
 Provides some built-in arrays of specific objects
on the currently loaded Web page
 document.location
 Used to access the currently open URL or
redirect the browser
document.links[0].href = "yahoo.com";
document.write(
"This is some <b>bold text</b>");
document.location = "http://www.yahoo.com/";

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FormValidation – Example
function checkForm()
{
var valid = true;
if (document.mainForm.firstName.value == "") {
alert("Please type in your first name!");
document.getElementById("firstNameError").
style.display = "inline";
valid = false;
}
return valid;
}
…
<form name="mainForm" onsubmit="return checkForm()">
<input type="text" name="firstName" />
…
</form>
form-validation.html

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The Math Object
 The Math object provides some mathematical
functions
for (i=1; i<=20; i++) {
var x = Math.random();
x = 10*x + 1;
x = Math.floor(x);
document.write(
"Random number (" +
i + ") in range " +
"1..10 --> " + x +
"<br/>");
}
math.html

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The Date Object
 The Date object provides date / calendar
functions
var now = new Date();
var result = "It is now " + now;
document.getElementById("timeField")
.innerText = result;
...
<p id="timeField"></p>
dates.html

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Timers: setTimeout()
 Make something happen (once) after a fixed
delay
var timer = setTimeout('bang()', 5000);
clearTimeout(timer);
5 seconds after this statement
executes, this function is called
Cancels the timer

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Timers: setInterval()
 Make something happen repeatedly at fixed
intervals
var timer = setInterval('clock()', 1000);
clearInterval(timer);
This function is called
continuously per 1 second.
Stop the timer.

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Timer – Example
function timerFunc() {
var now = new Date();
var hour = now.getHours();
var min = now.getMinutes();
var sec = now.getSeconds();
document.getElementById("clock").value =
"" + hour + ":" + min + ":" + sec;
}
setInterval('timerFunc()', 1000);
</script>
<input type="text" id="clock" />
timer-demo.html

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