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Sample source 3) Basic JavaScript document structure ( user-defined functions 1 )

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If built-in functions are the ones JavaScript defines by default,
user-defined functions are functions made by the user, for the user.

When programming, they're often used to optimize for your own environment 
and to implement a different style from everyone else's.


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"


"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">


<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="ko" lang="ko">




<head>


<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8" />


<title> user-defined function. </title>




<script type="text/javascript">


//<!CDATA[


// Definition structure -> function functionName(){}


function call(){ //function definition


document.write("javascript study");


alert("good time ");


}


//]]]]]]>


</script>




</head>






<body>


<script type="text/javascript">call();</script> <!-- function call 1 -->


<br />


<p>A defined function can be called repeatedly.</p>


<br />


<script type="text/javascript">call();</script> <!-- function call 2-->




</body>




</html>



This English version was translated by Claude.

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Pleasant Charles — UI/UX researcher at AIT. Keeping notes on design, planning, and slow days here since 2010.

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