CSPP552: Web Programming, JavaScript part 9

Built-in Classes

• JavaScript's interface with browser
• Objects have properties and methods (kind of like in C++)
• Document class
  • document object is current document
  • We've seen document.writeln() method already
• Document has a lot of properties, like
  • bgColor
  • fgColor
  • images[]
  • cookie
• Document methods are
  • write
  • writeln
  • close
  • open
  • clear
• Despite DOM, standardization hard to come by
• Other object types include Navigator, Image, Window, Frame, Date, and Math.
• If you want to make any sense of this, get the O'Reilly book.