JavaScript Introduction

JavaScript is Netscapes cross platform object based scripting language for client and server applications.

JavaScript Features

JavaScript is an easy to use language
JavaScript is not a form of Java
JavaScript is a Object based language and is not compiled and is a purely interpreted language
Script is embedded directly into the HTML pages and interpreted by the browser at runtime
JavaScript is a lightweight, interpreted programming language
Designed for creating network-centric applications
Complementary to and integrated with Java
Complementary to and integrated with HTML
Open and cross-platform

Javascript Tag

A JavaScript consists of JavaScript statements that are placed within the <script>... </script> HTML tags in a web page. You can place the <script> tag containing your JavaScript anywhere within your web page and keep it within the <head> tags. The <script> tag alert the browser program to begin interpreting all the text between these tags as a script.

Script Tag Attributes

Language: This attribute specifies what scripting language we are using. Basically, its value will be javascript.
Type: This attribute is to indicate the scripting language in use and its value should be set to "text/javascript".

JavaScript statement will look like

<script language="Javascript">
 JavaScript statements.....
<script>

This is the most common way of using JavaScript on HTML pages.

How to use JavaScript file in HTML code

<html>
<head>
<title>My first Javascript code</title>
<Script SRC="myCode.js">
</Script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

 

JavaScript Epression

The expression is preceded by an & and followed by ; and enclosed in curly braces {}

<H2/>&{myTitle};</H2>

Here myTitle is a JavaScript variable.

Event Handlers in some HTML tags

<html>
<head>
<title>My first Javascript code</title>
</head>
<INPUT TYPE = "button" VALUE="click" 
onClick="Javascript:javascriptFunction();">
<body>
</body>
</html>

 

Javascript allows more than one statement which can be included by separating with a semicolon ";"

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