Recommended JavaScript Reference Guide:
JavaScript: The Missing Manual

Learn how to use JavaScript to create interactive websites. "JavaScript: The Missing Manual", shows you how to use JavaScript even if you have little or no experience with programming languages. Begin by building a basic JavaScript program, and then once you know the structure and terminology of the language, you will progress on to tackling advanced JavaScript and building useful interactive features for your websites. The book has live examples and step-by-step tutorials for building website components with JavaScript for you to work with, and prebuilt and coded pages for you to use as practice which you can download from the book's website. Learn the building blocks of JavaScript, and find out how to add them to web pages, store and manipulate information; communicate with the browser window; respond to events like mouse clicks and form submissions; and identify and modify HTML and much more.