I am learning JavaScript. I create a file in same folder and linked it with html. The problem is when I write alert("Hello World") so it shows message in browser but when I am trying
document.getElementById("p1").innerHtml = "Hello world"
it does not change the content of my HTML element.
The HTML DOM property is innerHTML, not innerHtml:
document.getElementById("p1").innerHTML = "Hello world";
<div id="p1"></div>
Now the JavaScript code is executed before your browser loaded the DOM, so it won't work.
Move the <script src="main.js"></script> just above </body> in your HTML file. This way the DOM gets loaded before the JavaScript code.
Like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<H1 id="p1">hi</H1>
<script src="main.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
When I make a JS file and run it in Terminal it successfully runs .
code:
function add(x,y){
var sum = x+y;
console.log(sum);
}
add(15,5);
this code gives me correct answer, but when I create an HTML file and link it with the same Javascript file and trying to run it in terminal a pop-up massage says "code language not supported or defined"
html code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Document</title>
<script src="indaxi.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
so , why is that ..?
You will need to make sure that your file is referenced correctly. Here it is expected to be in the same folder as the HTML file that you have. As about the language, you can specify it as
<script type="text/javascript" src="indaxi.js"></script>
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I am creating a very simple HTML file and I am trying to link it to a JavaScript file so that the text changes when I click on it.
I have copied it almost entirely from W3 and it works when I place the javascript code within the HTML script tags, but when I try to source it using the script tags (see the first example below) I am not able to get the JavaScript file to link to the HTML.
Any help you can give me is appreciated. I am currently using Visual Studio Code to do this if that gives any hints as to what I am doing wrong.
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
<title>TextChange</title>
<script src="js/script.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<p>This example uses the HTML DOM to assign an "onclick" event to a p element.</p>
<p id="demo">Click me.</p>
</body>
</html>
JavaScript
document.getElementById("demo").onclick = function() {myFunction()};
function myFunction() {
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = "YOU CLICKED ME!";
}
Alternate HTML that works
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
<title>TextChange</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This example uses the HTML DOM to assign an "onclick" event to a p element.</p>
<p id="demo">Click me.</p>
<script>
document.getElementById("demo").onclick = function() {myFunction()};
function myFunction() {
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = "YOU CLICKED ME!";
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
When I render the HTML and view the source and click on the .js extension, I am able to view the javascript file. Despite this, the text that I want to change when I click on it does not change if I click on it.
Your JS file is included before the element, so getElementById() returns null.
Move it after the element, or make it wait for the document's loaded event.
Your script tag must be on the bottom of your html code (before the closure of <body> tag) so your javascript can use and detect the different DOM elements after they get rendered :
<html>
<body>
<!-- your code here -->
<script src="js/script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
I'm just starting on JavaScript and I'm following along this online course where it claims that if I insert <script> tags at the bottom of the page just before the <body> closing tag I should be able to see the website render first followed by the JavaScript code, but it is actually executing the other way around, the JavaScript code executes first and it's not until after I click "OK" on the message popping up that I'm able to see the website fully rendered.
Here is the code
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
<title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<h1>Where to place your JavaScript code.</h1>
</div>
<script src="scripts.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
scripts.js
alert("This text should appear after page is fully rendered");
I honestly don't know if this is how the code is supposed to work. Do alert(); scripts always execute first? Maybe the browser has something to do with it? (I'm using the latest version of Chrome). Anyhow, a well explained answer of what's happening would be much appreciated.
Personally, I would do something more like:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
<title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<h1>Where to place your JavaScript code.</h1>
</div>
<script>
window.onload = function() {
alert('This should now load after the page.');
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
The window.onload = fun... says "wait until the page has finished loading". Depending on what the browsers decide to (with images, layout, plugins etc.), this may or may not work for you.
Or even something like:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
<title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<h1>Where to place your JavaScript code.</h1>
</div>
<script async defer src="scripts.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
With this example, the async attribute means "grab this script file in the background" and the defer means "wait until the page has loaded to execute it".
So I embedded a chatango tab on my website, but I get this error when validating it for HTML.
The text content of element script was not in the required format: Expected space, tab, newline, or slash but found { instead.
Any workarounds for this? Thank you!
<script id="cid0020000101807397328" data-cfasync="false" async src="//st.chatango.com/js/gz/emb.js" style="width: 603px;height: 471px;">
{"handle":"********","arch":"js","styles":{"a":"000000","b":100,"c":"a0a0a0","d":"FFFFFF","e":"202020","g":"bbbbbb","h":"202020","j":"c0c0c0","k":"0084ef","l":"606060","m":"0084ef","n":"FFFFFF","p":"10","q":"000000","r":100,"pos":"br","cv":1,"cvfntsz":"14px","cvbg":"3366ff","cvw":600,"cvh":30,"surl":0,"allowpm":0,"cnrs":"0.35","ticker":1,"fwtickm":1}}</script>
As Ben said - you cannot use code inside tag with src.
But here is some valid and working solution:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="ru">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<title>chatango</title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
var chatango = document.createElement('script');
chatango.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');
chatango.setAttribute('id','cid0020000101807397328');
chatango.setAttribute('data-cfasync','false');
chatango.setAttribute('async',true);
chatango.setAttribute('src','//st.chatango.com/js/gz/emb.js');
chatango.setAttribute('style','width: 603px;height: 471px;');
chatango.innerHTML = '{"handle":"1shotgg","arch":"js","styles":{"a":"000000","b":100,"c":"a0a0a0","d":"FFFFFF","e":"202020","g":"bbbbbb","h":"202020","j":"c0c0c0","k":"0084ef","l":"606060","m":"0084ef","n":"FFFFFF","p":"10","q":"000000","r":100,"pos":"br","cv":1,"cvfntsz":"14px","cvbg":"3366ff","cvw":600,"cvh":30,"surl":0,"allowpm":0,"cnrs":"0.35","ticker":1,"fwtickm":1}}';
document.body.appendChild(chatango);
</script>
</body>
</html>