Inside JavaScript

Chapter 16. Dynamic HTML: Changing Web Pages On-the-Fly

Much of JavaScript is all about making your web pages “come alive,” and in this chapter we’re going to focus on that, using a variety of dynamic effects to change your web pages on-the-fly. Here’s an overview of the techniques we’ll see here:

• Changing visual properties on-the-fly

• Rewriting documents with the document.write method

• Using the insertAdjacentHTML and insertAdjacentText methods

• Rewriting documents with the innerHTML, innerText, outerHTML, and outerText properties

• Creating new elements

• Rewriting documents with text ranges

• Moving elements using Netscape Navigator layers

• Setting element visibility ...