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Section 17.1
• Add an audio file using HTML
• Create a form using HTML
• Add text boxes using HTML
• Add radio buttons and check boxes using HTML
• Add a pull-down menu using HTML
• Add a text area using HTML
Section 17.2
• Identify client-side scripting languages
• Create a rollover button using JavaScript
• Identify server-side scripting languages
• Debug code
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17.1
Adding Interactivity Using HTML
Guide to Reading
Main Ideas
Key Terms
You can use HTML code
to insert multimedia
elements into a Web
page. Other HTML tags
allow you to create forms.
animated GIF
radio button
pull-down menu
text area
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Adding Interactivity Using HTML
Adding Multimedia Elements
Inserting an audio file or
an animated GIF file is
very similar to inserting an
image file. You can set a
text link by including text
within the anchor tag set.
animated GIF A sequence
of GIF images that are all
stored in a single file along
with an image transition
delay value that controls the
time each image will stay on
the screen. (p. 441)
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Adding Interactivity Using HTML
Creating a Registration Form
You create a registration
form in HTML with text
boxes, using preset
options, like radio
buttons, check boxes,
pull-down menus, and
text areas.
radio button An interactive
control that allows a user to
select only one option from
a list of options; also known
as an option button. (p. 442)
pull-down menu See dropdown box. (p. 443)
text area Form element that
allows the user to enter as
much text as desired; also
known as a scroll box.
(p. 443)
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Adding Interactivity Using HTML
Creating a Registration Form
It is not difficult to create a form using HTML. Knowing
which HTML tags to use can help you adjust form
elements when you create a form in FrontPage.
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17.1
Adding Interactivity Using HTML
• Activity 17A – Adding an Audio File Using HTML (p. 440)
• Activity 17B – Adding Text Boxes Using HTML (p. 441)
• Activity 17C – Adding Radio Buttons and Check Boxes
Using HTML (p. 442)
• Activity 17D – Adding a Pull-down Menu Using HTML
(p. 443)
• Activity 17E – Adding a Text Area using HTML (p. 444)
440-444
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17.2
446-449
Adding Interactivity Using Scripting
Guide to Reading
Main Ideas
Key Terms
Scripting languages are
used to supplement the
capabilities of standard
HTML. Scripting
languages are divided into
client-side scripts and
server-side scripts.
client-side script
object
event
event handler
function
server-side script
variables
conditional statements
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Adding Interactivity Using Scripting
Client-Side Scripts
Some scripting
languages, known as
client-side scripts, are
designed to be transferred
to the user’s computer
along with the HTML
code.
client-side script A script
that is executed by the
user’s Web browser.
(p. 446)
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Adding Interactivity Using Scripting
Client-Side Scripts
JavaScript is a popular
scripting language for
client-side scripts. Its code
is composed of several
elements, including:
• Objects
• Events
• Event handlers
object In JavaScript, an
element in a browser window; it
can have properties that define
it. (p. 446)
event Anything that causes an
effect to occur; often triggered
by a user’s action. (p. 447)
event handler The part of the
script that responds to an event
and defines the action that will
occur when the event takes
place. (p. 447)
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Adding Interactivity Using Scripting
Client-Side Scripts
More Java elements:
• Functions
• Variables
• Conditional statements
function In JavaScript,
code that performs a
specific task or action.
(p. 447)
variable Used by scripts to
identify a value that will
change when the script is
executed. (p. 447)
conditional statement A
type of code that allows a
script to respond differently
depending on the action
taken by the user. (p. 447)
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Adding Interactivity Using Scripting
Server-Side Scripts
Server-side scripts are
run from the Web server.
Web designers often use
CGI to create Web-based
forms that users fill out
and then submit to the
server.
server-side script A script
that is executed on the Web
server, with the output
transferred to the user’s
computer as a Web page.
(p. 448)
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Adding Interactivity Using Scripting
Server-Side Scripts
Server-side scripts can be used to change static content
into dynamic content. A server-side script can retrieve data
based on the user’s input and then generate a Web page
that displays in the user’s browser.
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Adding Interactivity Using Scripting
Debugging Code
An alert statement tells you when a particular action is not
occurring as specified. Alert statements are useful to Web
developers during the testing phase. They are not helpful,
however, to visitors to the Web site. Therefore, alert
statements should be removed before the site is
published.
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Adding Interactivity Using Scripting
• Activity 17F – Creating a Rollover Button Using JavaScript
(p. 447)
Chapter 17
Resources
For more resources on this chapter, go to the Introduction
to Web Design Web site at webdesign.glencoe.com.