Dan Livingston, San Francisco, California
Micah Brown, Emeryville, California

Published June, 1999 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

Copyright 1999, 208 pp.
Paper
ISBN 0-13-012760-4

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1. Stylesheet Fundamentals.

The Big Projects. Task: Lay Out the Shelley Homepage in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Positioning Elements. Defining Position with <STYLE>. Blocking Off Content with <DIV>. Stacking with Z-Index. Adding Style to Elements. Modifying HTML Tags. Classes. Tight Control with <SPAN>. Cascading and Overlapping. ID Selectors.

2. The DHTML Begins.

Task: Add DHTML Interactivity to the Shelley Homepage. Pop-Up Search Window. Using JavaScript to Pop Up Secondary Navigation. Cycling Through a Feature Splash Screen.

3. Cross-Browser Coding.

Task: Code the DHTML on the Shelley Homepage to Be Cross-Browser. Coding for Both Browsers Using the Eval() Statement. Coding for Layer Visibility. Browser-Specific Features to Avoid.

4. Preparing a Storefront for DHTML.

The Big Project. Task: Preparing the Stitch Page for E-Commerce. Overview of the Storefront. Setting Up CSS and JavaScript.

5. Animating Layers.

Task: Create Animated Product Rollout for Three Product Lines. Animate a Single Layer. Animate Multiple Layers. Another Method.

6. Dragging Layers.

Task: Create Draggable Layers for Placing Products in the Shopping Cart. How the Code Works. Events. Browser Differences. Objects. Dragging and User Interface. Clipping Regions. The Meat of the Code. What We Left Out.

7. A Really Interactive Quiz: Part One.

Task: Create a Fully Interactive Quiz for Shelley Biotechnologies. The Functional Spec. The Quiz Questions. Scoring. Progress/Navigation. After the Quiz. Building the Questions. Cycling Through the Questions.

8. A Really Interactive Quiz: Part Two.

Introduction. Quiz Progress and Navigation. What Should Happen. Quiz Progress Images and Code. The End of the Quiz.

Appendix A: CSS Style Attribute Reference.
Appendix B: Miscellaneous Reference.
Appendix C: JavaScript Reference.
Appendix D: Cross-Browser DOM Reference.
Index.