Today websites are the most happening things in the world for all of our uses. To just display the information of your company, a static website is enough and can be built using just HTML, and if you want to beautify it, you can use Bootstrap, CSS, etc. But if you want to make your site interactive, responsive to the client’s requests then you need to use some programming concept in this. Adding to programming to the web designing is done using a programming language called JavaScript whose roots are extracted from the Java. For some scenarios such as to check whether the age is less than or more than 18 as an eligibility to have an account or a game, etc. can be done by the JavaScript. Simply, inserting of the programming code for conditions and verifications in the website is done through JavaScript.
Programming is nothing but making a computer do whatever you want. It is very simple to learn JavaScript if you have the knowledge of the Java. Almost all of its syntax, functions are extracted from the Java library, you just need to know where and how to use the conditions in web designing.
Why Study JavaScript?
It is good to learn JavaScript for different purposes if you want to design a website. To define the web page’s layouts CSS is used, HTML is used for defining web page’s content, whereas, the behavior of the web pages is programmed using JavaScript. JavaScript worked well and embedded within the HTML and CSS code.
Uses of JavaScript
Now a days, no website is so simple by just using HTML, they require much more functionalities and the clients are expecting more and JavaScript has become the mostly used language in the web pages today. You can find whether the site is using JavaScript or not by viewing the source code of the website. You can do this by selecting the view source code on right click on the page, and then you can find the JavaScript code somewhere or the other if the site is using it. HTML is just used to format the content and CSS, and others are used to beautify it, JavaScript is used to make your website dynamic, and this is what the clients expect from a site.
For example, you can create buttons, text boxes, check boxes, make the text italic, bold, etc. are done by the HTML, whereas the functionalities such as creation of pop-ups, warning messages, front end validations such as whether all the fields are filled and the values entered in the fields are correct or not, etc. can be done using JavaScript. JavaScript allows the user to click on elements, interact pages, and these entire things make it more dynamic.
These are the main functions for which JavaScript is used, and it is very easy to adapt to your website code. If you have grip over the Java language, then it is very easy to learn. From now try using it on your sites too.
