Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours, Fifth Edition is the freshest, easiest guide to modern JavaScript development. Extensively updated to reflect JavaScript"s growing use with HTML5 and CSS3, this full-color book is now even more valuable to inexperienced web developers. Packed with large illustrations, it presents all code in color, helping readers quickly understand program components, structure, and behavior. These outstanding visuals are complemented with a friendly writing style based on practical, complete examples. Readers gain hands-on mastery of syntax, program control, functions, objects, DOM, CSS, libraries, media, and more. As they develop foundational skills, they also learn newer techniques such as: * Using JavaScript, Ajax, and XMLHTTPRequest to improve interactivity * Leveraging jQuery and jQuery-UI libraries * Working with JavaScript and HTML5 together Step-by-step instructions walk readers through key tasks... Q and As, Quizzes, and Exercises test their...