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Web Developer's Reference Guide

By : Joshua Johanan, Talha Khan, Ricardo Zea
Book Image

Web Developer's Reference Guide

By: Joshua Johanan, Talha Khan, Ricardo Zea

Overview of this book

This comprehensive reference guide takes you through each topic in web development and highlights the most popular and important elements of each area. Starting with HTML, you will learn key elements and attributes and how they relate to each other. Next, you will explore CSS pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements, followed by CSS properties and functions. This will introduce you to many powerful and new selectors. You will then move on to JavaScript. This section will not just introduce functions, but will provide you with an entire reference for the language and paradigms. You will discover more about three of the most popular frameworks today—Bootstrap, which builds on CSS, jQuery which builds on JavaScript, and AngularJS, which also builds on JavaScript. Finally, you will take a walk-through Node.js, which is a server-side framework that allows you to write programs in JavaScript.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Web Developer's Reference Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
JavaScript Expressions, Operators, Statements, and Arrays
Index

Scoped variables and constants


When we declare a variable, then it has a local scope and a global scope. We can define a variable anywhere in our script. When we declare a variable in JavaScript, we can assign a value to it at the time of declaration or later. Here is an example:

_xyz123; // variable declared without assigning a value to it
varabc = "Star"; //variable declared while assigning a value to it

In JavaScript, a variable is defined by a dollar sign the same as in query. In JavaScript, we create variables dynamically using the var keyword. Every variable has a name and a value associated with it. These values can be of any type, such as number, array, string, and so on. A variable name could be a combination of characters and numbers. Here is an example:

(a==undefined){
a=5}

A variable that is declared outside a function is a global variable having a global scope. This means that it can be accessed from anywhere within a script.

We can also declare a variable constant with the const...