Lecture 4

Internet & World Wide Web
How to Program, 5/e

Chapters 6, 7 & 8
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JavaScript
Scripting language which is used to enhance the
functionality and appearance of web pages.
We begin with a simple script that displays the
text "Welcome to JavaScript Programming!" in
the HTML5 document.
All major web browsers contain JavaScript
interpreters, which process the commands
written in JavaScript.
The JavaScript code and its result are shown in
Fig. 6.1.
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Spacing displayed by a browser in a web page is

determined by the HTML5 elements used to
format the page
Often, JavaScripts appear in the <head> section of
the HTML5 document
The browser interprets the contents of the <head>
section first
The <script> tag indicates to the browser that
the text that follows is part of a script. Attribute
type specifies the scripting language used in the
scriptsuch as text/javascript
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Browsers document object represents the HTML5

document currently being displayed in the browser
Allows a you to specify HTML5 text to be displayed in the HTML5
document
Browser contains a complete set of objects that

allow script programmers to access and
manipulate every element of an HTML5 document
Object
Resides in the computers memory and contains information used

by the script
The term object normally implies that attributes (data) and
behaviors (methods) are associated with the object
An objects methods use the attributes data to perform useful
actions for the client of the objectthe script that calls the
methods

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The parentheses following the name of a

method contain the arguments that the
method requires to perform its task (or its
action)
Every statement should end with a semicolon
(also known as the statement terminator),
although none is required by JavaScript
JavaScript is case sensitive
Not using the proper uppercase and lowercase
letters is a syntax error

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The
document objects writeln

method
Writes a line of HTML5 text in the HTML5
document
Text displayed is dependent on the
contents of the string written, which is
subsequently rendered by the browser.
Browser will interpret the HTML5
elements as it normally does to render
the final text in the document
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The + operator (called the concatenation

operator when used in this manner) joins
two strings together

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Displaying Text in an Alert Dialog

Dialogs
Useful to display information in windows that pop
up on the screen to grab the users attention
Typically used to display important messages to
the user browsing the web page
Browsers window object uses method alert to
display an alert dialog
Method alert requires as its argument the string
to be displayed

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Escape Sequences
When a backslash is encountered in a string
of characters, the next character is combined
with the backslash to form an escape
sequence. The escape sequence \n is the
newline character. It causes the cursor in
the HTML5 document to move to the
beginning of the next line.

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Scripting
Gives you the ability to generate part or all of a
web pages content at the time it is shown to the
user
Such web pages are said to be dynamic, as
opposed to static, since their content has the
ability to change

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The next script creates a dynamic welcome page

that obtains the users name, then displays it on
the page.
The script uses another predefined dialog box
from the window objecta prompt dialogwhich
allows the user to enter a value that the script
can use.
Figure 6.5 presents the script and sample output.

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Keywords are words with special meaning in

JavaScript
Keyword var
Used to declare the names of variables
A variable is a location in the computers memory where a value
can be stored for use by a script
All variables have a name, type and value, and should be
declared with a var statement before they are used in a script
A variable name can be any valid identifier

consisting of letters, digits, underscores ( _ ) and
dollar signs ($) that does not begin with a digit
and is not a reserved JavaScript keyword.
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Declarations end with a semicolon (;) and can be split over

several lines, with each variable in the declaration
separated by a comma (forming a comma-separated list of
variable names)
Several variables may be declared in one declaration or
in multiple declarations.
Comments
A single-line comment begins with the characters // and
terminates at the end of the line
Comments do not cause the browser to perform any
action when the script is interpreted; rather, comments
are ignored by the JavaScript interpreter
Multiline comments begin with delimiter /* and end with
delimiter */
All text between the delimiters of the comment is ignored by
the interpreter.

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The window objects prompt method

displays a dialog into which the user can
type a value.
The first argument is a message (called a prompt)
that directs the user to take a specific action.
The optional second argument is the default
string to display in the text field.
Script can then use the value that the user

inputs.

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A variable is assigned a value with an

assignment statement, using the
assignment operator, =.
The = operator is called a binary operator,
because it has two operands.

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null keyword
Signifies that a variable has no value
null is not a string literal, but rather a predefined term
indicating the absence of value
Writing a null value to the document, however, displays the
word null
Function parseInt
converts its string argument to an integer
JavaScript has a version of the + operator for

string concatenation that enables a string and a
value of another data type (including another
string) to be concatenated

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Our next script illustrates another use of prompt

dialogs to obtain input from the user.
Figure 6.7 inputs two integers (whole numbers,
such as 7, 11, 0 and 31914) typed by a user at
the keyboard, computes the sum of the values
and displays the result.

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JavaScript does not require variables to have a

type before they can be used in a script
A variable in JavaScript can contain a value of any
data type, and in many situations, JavaScript
automatically converts between values of different
types for you
JavaScript is referred to as a loosely typed
language
When a variable is declared in JavaScript, but is
not given a value, it has an undefined value.
Attempting to use the value of such a variable is normally a logic
error.
When variables are declared, they are not

assigned default values, unless specified
otherwise by the programmer.
To indicate that a variable does not contain a value, you can

assign the value null to it.
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JavaScript provides three selection structures.

The if statement either performs (selects) an action if a
condition is true or skips the action if the condition is false.
Called a single-selection statement because it selects or ignores
a single action or group of actions.
The ifelse statement performs an action if a condition is

true and performs a different action if the condition is false.
Double-selection statement because it selects between two
different actions or group of actions.
The switch statement performs one of many different

actions, depending on the value of an expression.
Multiple-selection statement because it selects among many
different actions or groups of actions.

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JavaScript provides four repetition

statements, namely, while, dowhile, for
and forin.
In addition to keywords, JavaScript has
other words that are reserved for use by the
language, such as the values null, true
and false, and words that are reserved for
possible future use.

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The JavaScript interpreter ignores white-space

characters
blanks, tabs and newlines used for indentation and vertical
spacing
A decision can be made on any expression that

evaluates to a value of JavaScripts boolean type
(i.e., any expression that evaluates to true or
false).
The indentation convention you choose should be
carefully applied throughout your scripts
It is difficult to read scripts that do not use uniform spacing
conventions

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while
Allows you to specify that an action is to be
repeated while some condition remains true
The body of a loop may be a single statement or a
block
Eventually, the condition becomes false and
repetition terminates

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JavaScript provides the arithmetic

assignment operators +=, -=, *=, /= and %=,
which abbreviate certain common types of
expressions.

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The increment operator, ++, and the

decrement operator, --, increment or
decrement a variable by 1, respectively.
If the operator is prefixed to the variable,
the variable is incremented or decremented
by 1, then used in its expression.
If the operator is postfixed to the variable,
the variable is used in its expression, then
incremented or decremented by 1.

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for statement
Specifies each of the items needed for counter-controlled repetition with a control
variable
Can use a block to put multiple statements into the body
If the loops condition uses a < or > instead of a <= or >=, or

vice-versa, it can result in an off-by-one error
for statement header contains three expressions
Initialization
Condition
Increment Expression
The increment expression in the for statement acts like a

stand-alone statement at the end of the body of the for
statement
Place only expressions involving the control variable in the
initialization and increment sections of a for statement

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Figure 8.5 uses the for statement to sum

the even integers from 2 to 100.

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JavaScript does not include an

exponentiation operator
Math objects pow method for this purpose.
Math.pow(x, y) calculates the value of x raised
to the yth power.

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dowhile statement
tests the loop-continuation condition after the
loop body executes
The loop body always executes at least once

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Logical operators can be used to form complex

conditions by combining simple conditions
&& (logical AND)
|| (logical OR)
! (logical NOT, also called logical negation)
The && operator is used to ensure that two

conditions are both true before choosing a certain
path of execution
The || (logical OR) operator is used to ensure
that either or both of two conditions are true
before choosing choose a certain path of
execution
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! (logical negation) operator

reverses the meaning of a condition (i.e., a true
value becomes false, and a false value becomes
true)
Has only a single condition as an operand (i.e.,
it is a unary operator)
Placed before a condition to evaluate to true if
the original condition (without the logical
negation operator) is false

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Most nonboolean values can be converted to a

boolean true or false value
Nonzero numeric values are considered to be true
The numeric value zero is considered to be false
Any string that contains characters is considered to
be true
The empty string is considered to be false
The value null and variables that have been
declared but not initialized are considered to be
false
All objects are considered to be true

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Spacing displayed by a browser in a web page is

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Browsers document object represents the HTML5

Browser contains a complete set of objects that

Resides in the computers memory and contains information used

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The parentheses following the name of a

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document objects writeln

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The + operator (called the concatenation

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Displaying Text in an Alert Dialog

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The next script creates a dynamic welcome page

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Keywords are words with special meaning in

A variable name can be any valid identifier

Declarations end with a semicolon (;) and can be split over

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The window objects prompt method

Script can then use the value that the user

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A variable is assigned a value with an

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JavaScript has a version of the + operator for

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Our next script illustrates another use of prompt

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JavaScript does not require variables to have a

When variables are declared, they are not

To indicate that a variable does not contain a value, you can

JavaScript provides three selection structures.

The ifelse statement performs an action if a condition is

The switch statement performs one of many different

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JavaScript provides four repetition

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The JavaScript interpreter ignores white-space

A decision can be made on any expression that

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