JavaScript: Novice to Ninja, 2nd Edition

Chapter 9: The Window Object

Every JavaScript environment has a global object. Any variables that are created in the global scope are actually properties of this object, and any functions are methods of it. In a browser environment the global object is the window object, which represents the browser window that contains a web page.

In this chapter, we’ll cover these topics:

• The Browser Object Model

• Finding out browser information

• Browser history

• Controlling windows

• Cookies

• Timing functions

• Our project ― we'll add a countdown timer to our quiz

The Browser Object Model

The Browser Object Model (or BOM for short) is a collection of properties and methods that contain information about the browser and computer screen. For example, we can ...