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JavaScript Projects for Kids

By : Syed Omar Faruk Towaha
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JavaScript Projects for Kids

By: Syed Omar Faruk Towaha

Overview of this book

JavaScript is the most widely-used programming language for web development and that's not all! It has evolved over the years and is now being implemented in an array of environments from websites to robotics. Learning JavaScript will help you see the broader picture of web development. This book will take your imagination to new heights by teaching you how to work with JavaScript from scratch. It will introduce you to HTML and CSS to enhance the appearance of your applications. You’ll then use your skills to build on a cool Battleship game! From there, the book will introduce you to jQuery and show you how you can manipulate the DOM. You’ll get to play with some cool stuff using Canvas and will learn how to make use of Canvas to build a game on the lines of Pacman, only a whole lot cooler! Finally, it will show you a few tricks with OOP to make your code clean and will end with a few road maps on areas you can explore further.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
JavaScript Projects for Kids
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

CSS


If you want to make your web page beautiful, you must know CSS. CSS is a language that allows you to describe your web pages, color your texts, change the font of the text, and modify the layout of the web page.

There are two parts of a CSS syntax:

  • Selector

  • Decorator

Before proceeding with learning CSS, you need to introduce yourself with an HTML tag:

<style>

</style>

This tag should be kept between the <head></head> tags. Therefore, the structure of the code will be as shown in the following:

<html>
  <head>
    <title>
    </title>
    <style>
      // your codes will be typed here
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>

The CSS codes will be written in between the <style></style> tags.

To format your text, you need to remember the tag that you used for the text. Consider that you have a text in the <h1></h1> tag in the body of the HTML document, as follows:

<h1> This...