without javascript the only meaningful thing that can be done in HTML are to navigate to a new document with HTTP GET (A[href=]) or submit data via HTTP POST or

without javascript the only meaningful thing that can be done in HTML are to navigate to a new document with HTTP GET (A[href=]) or submit data via HTTP POST or similar verbs ((BUTTON, INPUT[TYPE=BUTTON]. INPUT[TYPE=IMAGE]) where the url is in the FORM tag or the form* attributes. This is because without javascript there are no persistent stores on the client side and you have to interact with HTTP to create a stateful application.