When JavaScript doesn't provide the function we need we can always add our own.
One advantage of the JavaScript language is that you can extend the language to add your own functionality. In the eight DOM tutorial we look at how we can take advantage of this to add our own method for looking up elements in the web page that share the same class name.
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clicking on something is the most common way your visitors will run your JavaScript
There are several different ways that an onclick event handler can be attached into your web page to handle your visitors clicking on things. In this tutorial we look at those ways and which ways are best avoided. We also look at an alternative way of processing that doesn't use onclick at all.
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