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J. BartlettProgramming for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8751-4_8

8. Your First JavaScript Program

Jonathan Bartlett1  
(1)
Tulsa, OK, USA
 

So far, we have covered the basics of web page content (using HTML) and presentation (using CSS). As we noted, HTML is a markup language, which is used to tell the computer about the structure of text. CSS is HTML’s counterpart, acting as a styling language to tell the computer how you want the HTML to look. These are both limited, special-purpose document languages. They tell the computer about the static structure of a document, or set of documents, but not how to perform any function or computation. ...

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