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How to insert JavaScript into web pages

You have learned everything there is to know about HTML and CSS to start building your static website and now you would like to make it dynamic but you don't know how to insert JavaScript into web pages; right? Don't worry! Inserting the scripts into html files is really a breeze. If you read this article, in the next five minutes you will discover all the methods for inserting JavaScript into html files. How to insert JavaScript into HTML file JavaScript need HTML file to work.  Like CSS all methods of inserting JavaScript into a Web Page can be divided into two sections; add the scripts inside the TAG of  HTML file or by calling them externally. In detail we can insert JavaScript: Directly into Body of the HTML file. In the Head Tag and recall it in the body. With a relative or absolute external reference. Insert JavaScript into HTML file We will see an example of how to insert JavaScript shortly but first let's focus on when it is useful to do an explicit or implicit ...

Introduction to the JavaScript language

In this introduction to the JavaScript language we discover one of the programming languages that has changed the concept of understanding the Web. The added value of JavaScript to the HTML code is to make the Web page dynamic in its interactions with the user. JavaScript is a client-side web programming language. Web 2.0 was born with the JavaScript language. The advantages of the JavaScript JavaScript or "JS" in its abbreviated form; is the most widely used client-side scripting language on the web. The advantage of the JavaScript is that it can be interpreted by almost all browsers; while what has allowed a strong expansion is the availability of many frameworks and libraries that can be easily integrated into scripts. The language is unique in its kind for data exchange thanks to the asynchronous AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) functions that allow you to interact with users without reloading web pages and to exchange data in JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) for...

The syntax of the JavaScript language

Each programming language has very specific rules to follow and the syntax of the JavaScript language makes no exceptions; so if you want to learn how to program for the Web "client-side", you have to write the code correctly, otherwise, it cannot be interpreted by the Browser. JavaScript is a scripting language that makes a Web page dynamic; the script code must be inserted inside the HTML tags allowing the Browser to interpret it. The processing phase is carried out locally and not by the server, using the power of the PC; this as you can guess is more advantageous. Introduction to JavaScript Learning the syntax of JavaScript is the first step in working with the elements of the HTML language via ID; exploiting the objects of the DOM (Data Object Model) in the Browser. JavaScript allows us to make a web page interactive and dynamic but in detail, we can do: Mathematical calculations. Change the graphic aspects of a web page in real-time. Check the data in a form before it i...