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Chapter 2

Event handlers connect

HTML to JavaScript

Remember event handlers from Chapter 1? You used the onClick

handler to connect a button on an HTML page to a JavaScript

function. Let’s take a quick peek back at Chapter 1:

Remember this? We used

event handlers to connect

the “Show Me the Money”

button in the Boards app to

a JavaScript function.

We need to use one of these

event handlers to connect

the phone number eld to a

JavaScript function.

An event handler connected

this bit of HTML...

...to this JavaScript function.

Man, Break Neck pizza rocks. There’s

nothing like a breakfast of cold pizza, a

whipped latte from Starbuzz, and the

Webville Times to read.

<script>

var request...

function foo()

{

...

}

</script>

JavaScript

<script>

var request...

function foo()

{

...

}

</script>

Customer’s Phone Number

Customer’s Address

Customer’s Order

connecting html to javascript