December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
745 pages
17h 26m
English
book
Oracle® Web Application Programming for PL/SQL® Developers
by Susan Boardman, Melanie Caffrey, Solomon Morse, Benjamin Rosenzweig
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Chapter 7. Introduction To JavaScript
Chapter Objectives
In this chapter you will learn about:
JavaScript allows a Web developer to create Web pages that are more interactive and more interesting. Using the Document Object Model, the Web developer has vast access to the browser and elements of the HTML document. JavaScript is an indispensable part of Web site development.
JavaScript is an interpreted, object-based scripting language. As with any programming language it comes replete with:
control statements
for…each
if-then-else
while
switch
values, variables, and string literals
operators (such as =, >, ==)
the ability to create and call ...