JavaScript Workshop » Meeting notes

Events are what allows JavaScript to interact with the user of your web page. There are four types of events: mouse, keyboard, HTML events and DOM events. The most common events are click, mouseover, mouseout, load, unload, submit and change. To respond to these events you must use the corresponding event handlers which are JavaScript keywords that are used within HTML tags.

Here is a video (.zip) summarizing many of the events that can be accessed via JavaScript, narrated by Dori Smith.

We've covered a lot of material today (variables, strings, conditional statements, etc.) so please review and try the examples for yourself. You won't truly understand what was covered unless you try to create your own scripts. Use the examples I've shown you as a guide and create your own.

Also, our first season's recommended book has many more detailed explanations and examples.