2Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

The image shows the different passengers travelling on a train.

What you will learn

In the previous chapter, you learned that a JavaScript program can live inside a web page. You saw that the file hello.html had a secret script inside it. In this chapter, we will find out more about the HTML standard that tells the browser program what a web page should look like. Then we’ll discover how to link JavaScript to elements on a web page to allow our programs to interact with the user.

HTML and the World Wide Web

What is HTML?

Making active web pages

Work with object properties

Egg timer

Investigate the egg timer

An image display program

Create your own pages

What you have learned ...

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