Core Web Programming, Second Edition

24.11. Summary

This chapter introduced JavaScript and gave examples of the main ways in which JavaScript can be applied to do the following:

• Customize Web pages based on the situation

• Make pages more dynamic

• Validate HTML form input

• Manipulate cookies

• Control frames

• Integrate Java and JavaScript

This chapter did not, however, give a complete description of Window, Document, Navigator and other standard classes in JavaScript 1.2. The Quick Reference given in the next chapter provides a description of the constructors, properties, and methods for the JavaScript objects.