JavaScript: A Beginner's Guide, Fourth Edition, 4th Edition

Chapter 11

Window Object

Key Skills & Concepts

•    Window: The Global Object

•    Using the Properties of the Window Object

•    Using the Methods of the Window Object

•    Opening New Windows

The JavaScript window object gives you access to more properties and methods you can use in your scripts, and serves as the global JavaScript object in Web browsers. In this chapter, you will see how it works as the global object, and learn to use a number of its properties and methods.

Window: The Global Object

The window object is created for each window that appears in the browser. A window can be the main window, a frame set or individual frame, a tab, ...