JavaScript for Web Developers: Understanding the Basics

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023

M. SimonJavaScript for Web Developershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9774-2_7

7. Interacting with CSS and Event Listeners

Mark Simon¹  

(1)

Ivanhoe, VIC, Australia

 

In the slide show project, as well as the following projects, we rely on CSS to do much of the work. CSS, Cascading Style Sheets, is the language that mostly controls the appearance of the content of the page. You don’t have to be an expert on CSS to make this work, but you should know some of the basic ideas so that you can understand what is going on and can easily make changes.

Here, we will look at

• The background of CSS

• What CSS can do

• Using event listener functions to react to a user event ...