JavaScript is a client-side scripting language as well as a server-side scripting language.
This scripting language can be written into HTML pages (also could use CSS for styling the pages), and web browsers understand the page.
This scripting language also acts like an object-oriented programming language but not a class-based object-oriented language.//What is JavaScript?
JavaScript is a client-side and server-side scripting language inserted into HTML pages and is understood by web browsers. JavaScript is also an Object-based Programming languageJavaScript is a scripting or programming language that allows you to implement complex features on web pages — every time a web page does more than just sit there and display static information for you to look at — displaying timely content updates, interactive maps, animated 2D/3D graphics, scrolling video jukeboxes, etc. JavaScript gives web pages interactive elements that engage a user.// Function: creates a new paragraph and appends it to the bottom of the HTML body.
function createParagraph() {
let para = document.createElement('p');
para.textContent = 'You clicked the button!';
document.body.appendChild(para);
}
/*
1. Get references to all the buttons on the page in an array format.
2. Loop through all the buttons and add a click event listener to each one.
When any button is pressed, the createParagraph() function will be run.
*/
const buttons = document.querySelectorAll('button');
for (let i = 0; i < buttons.length ; i++) {
buttons[i].addEventListener('click', createParagraph);
}