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Practical Web Development

By : Paul Wellens
Book Image

Practical Web Development

By: Paul Wellens

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Practical Web Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
10
XML and JSON
Index

Chapter 4. JavaScript

So far we have gone through three chapters and learned two languages, HTML and CSS. They are used to create a web page, give it content, and add styling to it. In this chapter, we will learn a third language, JavaScript, which is used for programming your web pages and add life to them. For quite some time, JavaScript was treated by some as a second class citizen. If ever this was deserved, it is definitely no longer true today. Before we get started with JavaScript, let us get oriented in the world of programming.