Stupid Web Tricks Book

Acknowledgements ..... xi
About This Book ..... xiii
Who This Book Is For ..... xiv
Objectives of This Book ..... xiv
How This Book Is Organized ..... xv
About the Web Pages ..... xv
Using the Files on the CD ..... xvii
Introduction ..... 1
What You'll Need ..... 2
Hardware ..... 2
Browser Software ..... 2
HTML Editors ..... 3
Image Editors ..... 4
Web Sites ..... 5
Browser Document Languages ..... 6
HTML ..... 6
Cascading Style Sheets ..... 8
Browser Scripting Languages ..... 12
JavaScript ..... 12
VBScript ..... 14
Dynamic HTML ..... 15
Web Server Scripting Languages ..... 16
Active Server Pages ..... 17
Perl ..... 17
Trick 1: Designing with Grids and Styles ..... 19
Trick 2: Generating Tables Dynamically ..... 41
Trick 3: Determining the Browser Version ..... 61
Trick 4: Border Graphics ..... 91
Trick 5: Positioning with Style Sheets ..... 107
Trick 6: Positioning with Layers ..... 139
Trick 7: Using Timers ..... 163
Trick 8: Redirecting to Another Page ..... 187
Trick 9: Interacting with Form Elements ..... 205
Trick 10: Hover Images ..... 241
Trick 11: Ad Rotators ..... 267
Trick 12: Time-Sensitive Content ..... 299
Trick 13: Reading Data from a File ..... 325
Trick 14: Interacting with Tables ..... 347
Trick 15: Enhancing Your Forms ..... 375
Index ..... 406