Introduction to JavaScript

• VBScript is another scripting language that uses Visual Basic code for writing scripts.
• ECMA approved JavaScript as an international standard in 1997.
• The Microsoft version of JavaScript is known as JScript.
• JavaScript is the first scripting language used for a browser.
• The old name of JavaScript is LiveScript.
• CGI was used to validate forms when JavaScript was not developed.
• JavaScript is the default scripting language of Netscape Navigator.
• If the language attribute is not defined, Netscape Navigator uses JavaScript as the default scripting language.
• Netscape develops the JavaScript language.
• A property is an attribute of an object used to change the style of the object.
• Every property has a value that changes the style of an object.
• JavaScript is interpreted at runtime. The script is not compiled.
• The comment tag is used to hide the script from the non-scriptable browsers.
• The <script>…<script> tag is used to insert scripts in a Web page.
• An HTML document can contain any number of <script>…<script> tag
• A variable declared inside the <script>…<script> tag but outside any function is known as global variable and can be accessed from any function within the <script tag>.
• The increment (++) operator is used to increment the value of a variable by one.
• Instantiation is a process of creating copies of different objects.

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