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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Unit 7.1. Embedding JavaScript in HTML
A First Example
JavaScript can be embedded within HTML. The <SCRIPT> tag allows you to do this.
FOR EXAMPLE
<HTML> <HEAD> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript"> <!--Begin hiding content from old browsers. alert("This is an Alert!"); document.write("I'm being written by JavaScript!"); //End hiding here--> </SCRIPT> </HEAD> <BODY> <H2>A First JavaScript Script</H2> <P>This is text within paragraph tags.</P> </BODY> </HTML>
The example above is a very simple JavaScript script embedded within an HTML page. It does two things:
It creates a pop-up message, called an alert, with the text “This is an Alert!” (Figure ...