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JavaScript: A Beginner's Guide, Fifth Edition, 5th Edition
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JavaScript: A Beginner's Guide, Fifth Edition, 5th Edition

by John Pollock
November 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
560 pages
13h 36m
English
McGraw-Hill
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Chapter 2

Placing JavaScript in an HTML File

Key Skills & Concepts

   Using the HTML Script Tags

   Creating Your First Script

   Using External JavaScript Files

   Using JavaScript Comments

Now that you have been introduced to JavaScript, you’re ready to start coding. This chapter introduces front-end (browser-based) JavaScript, while Chapter 3 will introduce how JavaScript can be used with Node.js.

Since front-end JavaScript code is included in HTML documents, you need to know how to tell Web browsers to run your scripts. The most common way to set off a script is to use the HTML <script> and </script> tags in your document. You can place your script tags in either the head or the body section of an HTML document.

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ISBN: 9781260457698