You??™re all set to become a JavaScript ninja!
CHAPTER 1 n THE STATE OF JAVASCRIPT 12
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
This chapter covers HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and how to access elements and
attributes using the document object model (DOM). Discussions include event handling,
creating new elements, and content styling. You learn how to leverage HTML, CSS, and DOM
scripting for rapid development and easier maintenance.
Although I assume that you know your HTML and CSS, I cover some of the essentials and
offer tips to make application development with DOM scripting and Ajax quicker and easier.
Getting into the Basics
You can??™t get any more basic than HTML when it comes to web application development.
HTML is the foundation upon which all else is built, so make sure that it is solid. I won??™t cover
what element does what because I suspect you already have a pretty good grasp of HTML if
you picked up this book. What I will cover is a review of some of the basics that will be important
going forward.
Web Standards
Although many books might discuss web standards and CSS development as the separation
between content and style, using web standards appropriately can actually make application
development easier, too. In old-fashioned web development??”the techniques you might have
learned in the 1990s, with tables and
tags??”HTML is used as a presentation language.
People would litter their code with whatever it took to make the design look as it should.
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