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JavaScript

Daniel Grieve
Daniel Grieve
6,432 Points
Posted by Daniel Grieve
Daniel Grieve
6,432 Points

JS vs CSS

Is this exercise purely for practice or is there an advantage of using JS to style links or any other element as opposed to using CSS?

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
225,713 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
225,713 Points

To which exercise are you referring? Can you provide a link?

1 Answer

Robert Anthony
Robert Anthony
19,952 Points

CSS describes the layout and appearance of the website when you load it but what if you want to change it for some reason. Like the user clicked on something or a timer went off or or ... JavaScript allows you to CHANGE the way the website looks or is set out and gives you more control after it has been loaded.

Daniel Grieve
Daniel Grieve
6,432 Points
Daniel Grieve
Daniel Grieve
6,432 Points

Thanks for the reply. The exercise was to set elements within a list to the colour purple. With no further interaction, I think this was just for practice.