JavaScript - Introduction

2 day course

In this hands-on course, you will learn to use JavaScript to enhance web pages with effects and interactivity.  As part of our Web Development Series, this class includes techniques for developing standards compliant Accessible Web Sites.  Used improperly, JavaScript can create many accessibility problems.  Through this course, you will learn proper JavaScript coding techniques, types of things that JavaScript is used for, where to place the JavaScript code, how to respond to user events, how to interact with the content and elements of the web page, how to understand the Document Object Model (DOM), and how to interact with some Cascading Style Sheet properties such as the visibility of page elements.

Overview of Course Topics:
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• Introduction to JavaScript
• Basic Scripting
• Objects, Properties, and Methods (Oh my!)
• Declaring and Using Data Variables
• Functions, Methods, and Events
• Working with Selectors in Style Sheets
• CSS for Text, Links, and Lists
• CSS for Images
• CSS and Navigation
• CSS and Tables
• CSS and Forms
• CSS Positioning and Layout
• Experimentation, Browsers, and the Future
• CSS and Specific Media