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JavaScript Treehouse Club: JavaScript Car Sounds HTML Comments and JavaScript

Waqas Khan
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Waqas Khan
Courses Plus Student 2,661 Points

can you please explain me " interactive functionality" in javascript

can you please explain me " interactive functionality" in javascript

3 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

"Interactive functionality" is responding to what the user does, causing the page to do something beyond just having it show something. In the case of the code in the video, it involves reacting to mouse clicks and making sounds.

Stuart Wright
Stuart Wright
41,120 Points

Another simple example is me writing this post. When I click the 'Post answer' button, my post is added to the page, without having to reload the entire page. This is another example of interactivity which would not be possible without JavaScript.

Stuart Wright
Stuart Wright
41,120 Points

Ok, this might have been a bad example, because I think the page did actually reload after I hit 'Post answer'. A better example is me hitting the 'Add comment' button just now, and it presented me with this box to type in, which wasn't there previously, and the page definitely didn't reload.

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