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Figure 8-3. The alert placeholder in action
From pseudocode to real code
Having set out the steps required to make this work, let’s take a look at the actual code that will do it (I’ll quote from my
earlier descriptions):
“The browser begins loading the page, and includes a piece of JavaScript in an external .js file that contains all the behavioral
rules.”
In the previous examples, I showed the scripts embedded in the page itself. It’s now time to place the scripts in their own file
and refer to them in the web page, like so:
A sectioned-up page
...
“When the page has loaded . . .”