Web Programming with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript

10.1 Introduction

In the previous two chapters, you learned about the basic building blocks needed to implement interactive web pages. Specifically, you learned about forms, buttons, text controls, number controls, event handlers, and JavaScript. In this chapter, you’ll add to your tool bag, so you can implement a wider variety of web pages. You’ll learn how to make those web pages look better and behave more dynamically.

In this chapter, we introduce controls that can be grouped together, such as radio buttons and checkboxes. You’ll learn how to access and update those controls by using JavaScript loop statements to process the individual values within the control’s group of values. You’ll also use JavaScript to dynamically modify a web page’s ...