From the course: SharePoint Advanced: Enhancing Functionality with JavaScript
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Define JavaScript
From the course: SharePoint Advanced: Enhancing Functionality with JavaScript
Define JavaScript
- [Instructor] The first thing I want to do is give us a good definition of exactly what JavaScript is that will also include how it relates to SharePoint. Now according to Wikipedia, JavaScript is a high-level, interpreted programming language. It is a language which is also characterized as dynamic, weakly typed, prototype-based and multi-paradigm. Well I don't know about you, but this tells me absolutely nothing. I think my favorite explanation is to think of it like this, the overwhelming majority of basic web pages consist of three parts. Part one is the content, the images or text or whatever that's on the page. Now this is defined by HTML and here is HTML right here. Now part two is CSS which describes the appearance of that content, the fonts, the colors, the size and positions that lay the content out on the page. Part three is the behaviors and interactivity on the page, what happens when you click or float over something or whatever it is you do. Well that my friends, is…
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