JavaScript How To ...
Examples
Write text
How to write text on a page
How to Put a JavaScript Into an HTML Document
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write("Hello World!")
</script>
</body>
</html>
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And it produces this output:
To insert a script in an HTML document, use the <script> tag. Use the
type attribute to define the scripting language.
<script type="text/javascript">
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Then comes the JavaScript: In JavaScript the command for writing some text on
a page is document.write:
document.write("Hello World!")
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The script ends:
Inserting Text With HTML Formatting
Write text with formatting
How to format the text on your page with HTML tags
<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write("<h1>Hello World!</h1>")
</script>
</body>
</html>
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Ending Statements with a Semicolon?
With the traditional programming languages C++ and Java, each code statement
has to end with a semicolon.
Many programmers continue this habit when writing JavaScript, but in general, semicolons are
optional and are required only if you want to put more than one statement on a single line.
How to Handle Older Browsers
Older browsers that do not support scripts will display the script as page
content. To prevent them from doing this, you can use the HTML comment tag:
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
some statements
//-->
</script>
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The two forward slashes in front of the end of comment line (//) are a JavaScript comment symbol, and
prevent the JavaScript from trying to compile the line.
Note that you can't put // in front of the first comment line (like
//<!--), because older browser will display it. Funny? Yes ! But that's the
way it is.
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