So far this tutorial has relied on just two methods of output; console.log and console.error. JavaScript provides at least four methods of output. This part of the tutorial will describe two additional methods of output.
document.write
The function used thus far have all been highly unobtrusive and do not do anything but allow debugging. The document.write is another very useful debugging output method.
document.write("Hello world!")
Another form of this is the is document.writeln which will write a line to the document:
document.writeln("Hello world!")
Using the document.write and the document.writeln functions will overwrite any existing HTML in the document. and should only be used for debugging purposes.
window.alert
The most useful output when developing a usable web document that JavaScript provides is the window.alert function.
window.alert("Hello world!")
The window.alert function is a formalised version of the alert function:
alert("Hello world!")
