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JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562523
Pages 546 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (3):
Laurence Lars Svekis Laurence Lars Svekis
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Maaike van Putten Maaike van Putten
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Codestars By Rob Percival Codestars By Rob Percival
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Preface 1. Getting Started with JavaScript 2. JavaScript Essentials 3. JavaScript Multiple Values 4. Logic Statements 5. Loops 6. Functions 7. Classes 8. Built-In JavaScript Methods 9. The Document Object Model 10. Dynamic Element Manipulation Using the DOM 11. Interactive Content and Event Listeners 12. Intermediate JavaScript 13. Concurrency 14. HTML5, Canvas, and JavaScript 15. Next Steps 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index
Appendix – Practice Exercise, Project, and Self-Check Quiz Answers

Animating elements

Lastly, we want to show you that you can animate using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This allows us to do even cooler things with our web page. For example, we can trigger an animation as an event. This can be used for many different purposes, for example, to illustrate an explanation, to draw the user's eyes to a certain location, or to play a game.

Let's show you a very basic example. We can use the position key and set it to absolute in CSS. This makes the position of the element relative to its nearest positioned parent. Here, that would be the body. This is the code for a purple square that moves from left to right when a button is clicked.

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <style>
    div {
      background-color: purple;
      width: 100px;
      height: 100px;
      position: absolute;
    }
  </style>
  <body>
    <button onclick="toTheRight()">Go right</button>
    <div id="block"&gt...
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