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[Contents]<\/a> <Lesson 2><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n

1.1 What is JavaScript?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

JavaScript is a scripting language that works with HTML to enhance web pages and make them more interactive by accessing and modifying the content in a webpage. What is a scripting language? A script is made up of a sequence of statements that give instructions for the computer to perform certain tasks, for examples, like providing a response to the users, to play a song, to start a slideshow, to display certain advertisements and so on.<\/p>\n

JavaScript can turn a web page into a lively interactive platform for the world wide web users! JavaScript is a scripting language for HTML. Besides that,\u00a0 you can add sound, date, time, change the color of the web page according to a certain day, prevalidate data entered into a form by the user before it is sent to the server, search through a database, set options based on users preferences and much
\nmore.Basically, JavaScript\u00a0can access the content of a webpage by selecting any element. attribute or text from an HTML page. It can also modify the content of a webpage by adding elements, attributes, and text to the page.<\/p>\n