The Essential Guide to HTML5: Using Games to Learn HTML5 and JavaScript

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J. MeyerThe Essential Guide to HTML5https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8722-4_10

10. Blackjack

Jeanine Meyer¹  

(1)

Purchase, NY, USA

 

In this chapter, we cover the following:

• The footer and header tags, which are new to HTML5

• Capturing key presses

• Programmer-defined objects

• Generating Image elements using a set of external image files

• Shuffling a deck of cards

Introduction

The objective of this chapter is to combine programming techniques and HTML5 and JavaScript features to implement the card game blackjack, also called the 21 card game . The implementation will use new tags introduced in HTML5, namely, footer and header. We will use the footer to give credit to ...