# JavaScript Tutorial

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JavaScript is the programming language of the Web.

All modern HTML pages are using JavaScript.

JavaScript is easy to learn.

This tutorial will teach you JavaScript from basic to advanced.

## Examples in Each Chapter

With our "Try it Yourself" editor, you can change all examples and view the results.

## Example

## My First JavaScript

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| We recommend reading this tutorial, in the sequence listed in the left menu.

## Learn by Examples

Examples are better than 1000 words. Examples are often easier to understand than text explanations.

This tutorial supplements all explanations with clarifying "Try it Yourself" examples.

| If you try all the examples, you will learn a lot about JavaScript, in a very short time!

## Why Study JavaScript?

JavaScript is one of the 3 languages all web developers must learn:

1. HTML to define the content of web pages

2. CSS to specify the layout of web pages

3. JavaScript to program the behavior of web pages

This tutorial is about JavaScript, and how JavaScript works with HTML and CSS.

## JavaScript Examples

This tutorial contains hundreds of examples!

The Complete List of JavaScript Examples

## JavaScript References

W3Schools maintains a complete JavaScript reference, including all HTML DOM, and browser objects.

The reference contains examples for all objects, properties, and methods, and is continuously updated according to the latest web standards.

Complete JavaScript Reference

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