CHAPTER 4
HTML and JavaScript
In this chapter, you finally get your hands dirty in real JavaScript code. You’ll learn how JavaScript interacts with the page structure—defined in HTML—and how to receive data and give back information to your visitors. I start with an explanation of what an HTML document is and how it is structured, and then I explain several ways to create page content via JavaScript. You’ll then hear about the JavaScript developer’s Swiss Army knife—the Document Object Model (DOM)—and how to separate JavaScript and HTML to create now-seamless effects that developers used to create in an obtrusive manner with DHTML.
The Anatomy ...
Get Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax, Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
