January 2003
Beginner to intermediate
1200 pages
23h 42m
English
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Commenting Your JavaScript
As with HTML and XML, you can add comments to JavaScript code; in JavaScript, you use a double forward slash (//) to start a comment. The JavaScript interpreter in the browser stops reading anything on a line past //, so you can comment your code like this:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
Using Variables in JavaScript
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<CENTER>
<H1>
Using Variables in JavaScript
</H1>
</CENTER>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
//Create the weatherReport variable
var weatherReport
//Assign a value to weatherReport
weatherReport = "The temperature is 72 degrees."
//Display the value in weatherReport
document.writeln(weatherReport)
//-->
</SCRIPT>
</BODY>
</HTML>