JavaScript for Web Designers

Chapter 1. Getting Set Up

BEFORE WE SET FOOT on JavaScript’s turf, let’s get a feel for our development environment. First we’re going to set up a page where we can do a little work, then we’re going to have a look at that page through the lens of our browsers’ built-in JavaScript debugging tools, and finally, we’ll start making sense of the basic rules of JavaScript syntax.

INCLUDING JAVASCRIPT IN A PAGE

If you’ve worked with CSS at all, you’ll find that including a script in your page follows more or less the same pattern as including a stylesheet, though with a slightly different syntax and a few small caveats.

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