Web Standards Programmer's Reference: HTML, CSS, JavaScript®, Perl, Python®, and PHP

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20.11. Summary

This chapter covered the basics of the JavaScript language to familiarize you with its syntax, structure, data objects, and more. After reading this chapter, you should understand how JavaScript compares to other programming languages and be ready to apply that knowledge. The next chapter discusses the Document Object Model, the most powerful data object available to JavaScript. Subsequent chapters cover typical uses of JavaScript as well as using JavaScript with HTML to achieve Dynamic HTML (DHTML).

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