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JavaScript Projects for Kids

By : Omar Faruk Towaha
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JavaScript Projects for Kids

By: 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 (12 chapters)
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Index

HTML buttons and form


In the last chapter, you learned about a few HTML tags. Now, we will study a few tags that will make learning HTML more interesting.

Buttons

If you want to add buttons to your HTML web page, you can use the <button></button> tags. The structure of the tags is as follows:

<button type="button">Click Here </button>

If you want to make your button do something, for example, open an URL; you can consider the following code:

<a href="http://google.com/"><button type="button">Click Me </button> </a>

The output of the code will be as follows:

Form

In HTML, we use form to represent a document section that contains interactive controls to submit information to a web server. The basic structure of HTML form is as shown in the following:

<form>
  User ID: <input type = "text"><br>
  Password: <input type ="password"><br>
</form>

The output of the code will be as follows:

Let's dive little bit deeper now!