DHTML in Review

DHTML is a buzzword that came onto the scene during the version 4 browsers and tried to bring the “sexy back” to web development. Even though web standards, accessibility and unobtrusiveness were still in their infantcy, it did make the web world more aware of what you could do on the client (browser) before sending data to the server.

Even though the defintions of DHTML may never be totally accurate (the changing of the styles of HTML elements by means of JavaScript), if we can take what we have learned in the past and apply them now we can get a very thorough understanding of what JavaScript can do.

This e-book (.pdf) and example code (.zip) covers some topics I covered on this website as well as many others I have not, such as: the DOM, table sorting and highlighting, regular expressions, hide-show, pop-up windows, form validation and formatting, alertless error messages, date picker, google maps, and ajax basics.