JavaScript Lives in a Web Page
All the code that you write for JavaScript goes into an HTML page. If you don’t know HTML yet, you should run out and get a good book on HTML. Lynda and William Weinman’s Creative HTML Design.2 (New Riders, 2001) is a good choice for designers and developers. However, assuming that you are familiar with HTML, you should be familiar with the whole concept of a tag language. HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. As a markup language, HTML essentially describes a web page as a static entity. A far more challenging endeavor is to program a web page that is dynamic, engaging, and intriguing. That’s where JavaScript comes into play.
The most dynamic elements in HTML, beside the link, are event-related attributes. ...
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