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JavaScript

Posted by Colton Colcleasure
Colton Colcleasure
3,062 Points

Changing div formatting. In what instances would you use JavaScript?

JavaScript is used in coordination with HTML and CSS. CSS is used obviously for styling your HTML page. As I'm watching the JavaScript Basics video on variables, it is showing me how to change properties of HTML divs using JavaScript and I am left asking myself why I would use this instead of doing it in CSS. Is this just a basic functionality of JavaScript that I will most likely never end up using, or should I remember this, as it will be utilized in the future?

1 Answer

Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points
Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points

Hi Colton,

You can use that functionality to dynamically change something on the page. For example, lets say there is an option to click on something that says enlarge image. When that click event occurs you could have Javascript change the class of the div which could then be "targeted" by a different css selector to change the size of the image.

Jeff