The introduction to JavaScript explains you the basic of JavaScript web scripting. Following are the few topics covered in this JavaScript document.
- What is JavaScript
- Uses of JavaScript
- Writing JavaScirpt
- Programming Basics
- Variables
- Functions
- JavaScript Objects
- Objects
- Properties
- Methods
- Document and Window Objects
- Write to a Document
- Open a Window
- JavaScript Events
- Events and Objects
- Image Rollovers
JavaScript was released by Netscape and Sun Microsystems in 1995. However, JavaScript is not the same thing as Java.
What is JavaScript- It is a programming language.
- It is an interpreted language.
- It is object-based programming.
- It is widely used and supported
- It is accessible to the beginner.
- Use it to add multimedia elements: With JavaScript you can show, hide, change, resize images, and create image rollovers. You can create scrolling text across the status bar.
- Create pages dynamically: Based on the user's choices, the date, or other external data, JavaScript can produce pages that are customized to the user.
- Interact with the user: It can do some processing of forms and can validate user input when the user submits the form.