Adding to Lists

We'll start our little journey with a simple example. We'll start with a list that doesn't have any items in it and allow the user to add whatever items they want. Example 4-1 shows what our page looks like with only HTML (no JavaScript yet).

Example 4-1. List-changing HTML
 <html> <head> <title>list manipulation</title> <style type="text/css"> #addToList{ position: absolute; top:10; left: 10; } #list { position: absolute; top:10; left: 250; } .copy { font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; } </style> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div id="addToList" class="copy"> <form name="listForm"> Add an item to your To Do list: <br> <input type="text" name="todo" size="30" class="copy"><br> <input type="button" value="Add ...

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