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I understand the purpose of html and css but what is the point of javascript?

20th Jan 2017, 3:28 AM
Tanesha Mooring
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Let's compare it to a car: Html - all the chassis and how the internal parts of the car are organized. Css - the design of the car ie how it looks like inside and outside. Javascript - what makes the car operational. Drive, steer, open the radio, honk the horn, lights and all its functions.
20th Jan 2017, 9:42 AM
Shahar Levy
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HTML= Content & Structure.. CSS= Presentation.. JavaScript= Behavior.. :)
20th Jan 2017, 12:51 PM
Susan Mizan
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If you learn JS here, you will know it. It's to apply DOM events. If you don't know what they are, I suggest you do the course.
20th Jan 2017, 3:32 AM
David Sebastian Keshvi Illiakis
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if compare to a human: Html is skeleton css is the appearance js is the actions
20th Jan 2017, 9:19 PM
Adilet Kambarov
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HTML creates the structure of the site, CSS 'styles' the structure, and JavaScript "Changes" elements of the site. HTML - Gives you an Input "box" CSS - Tell the box to have a nice border and cool color JS - "Changes" the box to give it a shadow and change the color when you 'hover' over it with the mouse.
20th Jan 2017, 5:33 AM
Toby Milroy
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Ok think of a clock - the arrangement of numbers is html, the nice looking colors and pictures are css and the gears in the back that make the arms move is JavaScript
20th Jan 2017, 3:10 PM
J.A.
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It defines the behaviour of the website
20th Jan 2017, 8:01 PM
Bohdan Sakovych
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Compare To A Real Life. HTML Is The Hand. CSS Is The Pen. JavaScript Is The Brain if u need to calculate 1 +1 u will solve it in ur brain, and write it in ur hand using ur pen.
23rd Jan 2017, 12:58 AM
Omar Hasan
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Javascript is just magic.... I've loved the fact that I can manipulate the Document Object Model given me a sense of control or superiority when creating applications/websites. Toby your right but your explanation of what JS does, CSS does better and effectively. Although I love JS, please remember that when designing things use CSS3 for efficiency. It may seem hard, but what isn't usually to begin with? Try animation, transitions etc and you'll understand.
20th Jan 2017, 9:13 AM
Mark Foxx
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HTML, CSS, & JAVA these three makes any webpage alive, all three have different functions. HTML : It gives structure to a webpage; like border, boxes, paragraphs etc. CSS : It is used to improve webpage appearance like colors, fonts, style etc. JS : It is used to give functionality to a webpage, l like tooltip, button behavior, input collection etc.
21st Jan 2017, 1:28 PM
mukesh suthar
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It is basically make up for your mark up. It allows the user to be more engaged and it helps a lot with Web animations and stuff. you can also create Web applications so it gives your page a more tuned look and feel.
20th Jan 2017, 9:06 AM
Mlandvo Mesh Dlamini
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Html=Skelton, Css= skin and muscles, Java Script =Brain!
20th Jan 2017, 6:20 PM
Haza
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Javascript is a high level programming language that compliments both CSS and HTML in webpages with functionality. You could think of it as the third musketeer to HTML and CSS in a way, as I think it's safe to say most sites utilize all three.
20th Jan 2017, 9:09 PM
Leon Burroughs
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JavaScript allow users to interact with the website,for build web applications (for example a calculator) for building more complex animations ,and many more Html and Css are like the user interface JS the programming language to do funtions ...and hard work
20th Jan 2017, 8:26 AM
Jesus Guerrero
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while HTML sets the structure and the CSS sets the aesthetics, JS is in charge of making the site's data dynamical. This means the information shown in your page does not have to be static, but instead it can change based on the events that are triggered on your page, like validating that the information in an input field is actually the information requested or even pulling some information from a database (username, for example)
21st Jan 2017, 3:54 AM
Rafael Gonzalez
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javascript is like the nerves in you body which takes the information to the server and also makes the page more inteactive
21st Jan 2017, 5:35 AM
Sujan Bro
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HTML is skeleton, CSS is muscle and JS is the spirit. In the beginning it might look like a bouncer, Just finsh the chapter. and you might get the point.
21st Jan 2017, 3:21 PM
Ayush Azad
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take David of Donatello (a sculpture) and you. What is the difference? you act,think,doing stuff etc... this is what JavaScript doing on websites: make websites dynamic.
20th Jan 2017, 7:04 PM
Michael Primo
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JS allows you to create dynamic web pages. On the other words using JS you create some actions on page that makes it "alive". Most popular usage is crrating the slider where images changing without reloading the page
21st Jan 2017, 4:47 AM
Николай Кожакин
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html builds basic layout of a page; CSS add graphics related info and Java provides functioning to page.
21st Jan 2017, 3:03 PM
Kartikeya Kotnala
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