I am using a local HTML file with link to an external script (located in the same directory) that worked when in the file, but externally doesn't. Neither Firefox nor Chrome. Code:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="docket.js"> </script>
</head>
<body onload="doFunction()"> ...
The script is in a .js file, which has (simplified):
function doFunction() ....
For one, you shouldn't include the script tags in your external js file.
Also try to move the script line at the bottom before the closing body tag.
If after removing, it still doesn't work, you should open the developer tools to get clue of what is going on.
index.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
...
</head>
<body onload="doFunction()">
...
<script type="text/javascript" src="docket.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
docket.js:
function doFunction() {
alert("hello...");
}
Note: no script tags
As per w3school - https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_script.asp
The external script file cannot contain the tag.
The syntax for script tag is -
<script src="URL">
Where your URL is -
1. An absolute URL - points to another web site (like src="http://www.example.com/example.js") OR
2. A relative URL - points to a file within a web site (like src="/scripts/example.js")
Note: with HTML5, type attribute for script tag is optional.
I'd suggest to add a noscript tag just to make sure you have JS enabled in your browser.
<noscript>Your browser does not support JavaScript!</noscript>
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I am at the start of learning Javascript, but within the first 10min I hit on a Chrome issue. I'm attempting to display the code I wrote with Visual Studio in the Chrome console, but rather than showing the code in the section below the menus 'Element', 'Console', 'Source' etc, the code displays exactly as I wrote it, but in the view panel including all html tags below the menu section 'Apps', 'Bookmarks', 'Customize Links' etc. How do I resolve this, any answers?
I tried to use ctrl-o to open the .js file whilst in Visual Studio and also whilst on Chrome, but only the file path to the .js file opened, and when subsequently clicking on the file it looked like the image below.
chrome not displaying JavaScript code in the location I want it to be
To clarify - you are loading a .js file in the browser which is what is displaying in chrome (the content of that file).
What you want to do is run that js file and have Chrome's JavaScript interpreter (V8) parse that information. To do that, you must add your script to an index.html page and then in index.html, load that e.g something like <script type="text/javascript" src="script.js"></script>
Alternatively, you can just run the JavaScript directly in index.html via
<script type="text/javascript">
// your JavaScript
</script>
You are opening the javascript file directly in the browser, not opening an .html file with a javascript tag. That's why Chrome is showing you the file content.
If you want to execute your javascript code in the Chrome console, paste it directly in the "console" tab of the developer tools.
If you want to execute your javascript code in a web page, you have to create an html file with a script tag loading your javascript code, something like:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<script src="main.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
In order to see your html content on browser you should load .html file instead of loading .js file
you can include your javascript code in two ways
Add your Javascript code inside the script tagcreate a new javascript file with extension .js and add it in your html file
Example1 (Adding Javascript inside script tag)
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<script>
console.log("good morning");
alert("good morning");
</script>
</body>
</html>
Example2 (Adding Javascript from external file)
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<script src="nameOfFile.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
console.log doesn't display what I want it to show in my chrome browser dev console.
I have this code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="script.js">
console.log(amazingCars);
var amazingCars =["BMW","Lexus","Ford","Mercedes"];
amazingCars.pop();
console.log(amazingCars);
amazingCars.sort();
console.log(amazingCars);
amazingCars.length;
console.log(amazingCars.length);
</script>
</body>
</html>
The directions for the assignment are the following:
Link the JavaScript page to the HTML page.
Create an array named amazingCars that contains four values:
BMW
Lexus
Ford
Mercedes
Remove the last value from the array
Next, sort the array in alphabetical order
Lastly, find the length of the array
I dont understand why it isn't displaying or the reason of this issue
If you are putting your JS code in html just add them between<script></script> tag.
You do not need to add src for script unless your JavaScript code is coming from a separate script file.
The src attribute specifies the URL of an external script file.
If you want to run the same JavaScript on several pages in a web site,
you should create an external JavaScript file, instead of writing the
same script over and over again. Save the script file with a .js
extension, and then refer to it using the src attribute in the
<script> tag
.
As per the instructions that you are following : "Link the JavaScript page to the HTML page."
Create another file "index.js" in your project directory.
Move your js code into the index.js file in your project directory and then use :
<script src="index.js"></script> in your HTML.
Firstly, make the <script src="index.js"></script> seperate from the code in the head, also unless if you have a seperate javascript file you dont need the src part at all, and secondly the first console.log outputs it before definition, creating an error. I hope this helped
You have to change <script src="script.js"> to <script>.
Alternatively you can keep it this way and create a script.js file and copy paste all the code you have inside the <script> tag to the file. This file need to be in the same folder as your index.html file.
I want to put a minified java script contents in tags directly in HTML page. i have html page like:
<html>
<head>
<script src="jquery.js"></script>
<script src="iemagic.js"></script>
<script src="shim.js"></script>
<script src="jszip.js"></script>
<script src="xlsx.js"></script>
</head>
</html>
I have minified all the javascript contents and put it in a single file called "all.js" and the html works fine, now it looks like :
<html>
<head>
<script src="all.js"></script>
</head>
</html>
I want to include all the content of "all.js" in to HTML directly in "script" tag. I tried with that but no luck, when i open html file in browser it show all the java script content which i have copied in "script" tag.
Is there any other way for this ?
Thank you all for helping me. i have found the solution for this. * added all the "js" files in different "script" tag tested working fine but some of the javascript lines was visible in the browswer. * The problem was "iemagic.js" was having the comments which are not proper and was creating the problem. * I have removed those commented lines and is working find now. without having any "js" file and only one HTML. Thank you All for your help and valuable time.
You can use gulp or jscompress
<HTML>
<Head>
<Title>My Test</Title>
<script src="http://someurl.com/test.js"></script>
</Head>
<Body>
This is for test
</Body>
</HTML>
Above mentioned is my HTML code. When I right click my page & hit "view source" I can see exact same code.
But what my requirement is, instead of <script>...</script> I want actual javascript code from test.js should be displayed when I am hitting "view source".
I tried to put it in iframe, but it didn't worked.
What you want is impossible to achieve with HTML and an external JS file.
There is no way to make View Source show anything other than the actual source code of the URL.
If you want to look at the JavaScript source code, then look at the URL for the JavaScript. Most browsers will hyperlink it in View Source to make it easy to do.
If you really want the JS to be displayed as part of the source of the HTML document, then you have to make it part of the HTML document. Remove the src attribute and copy the contents of the JS file to between the start and end tag of the script element.
add a <script> tag in the <head> section
<script src="path/to/test.js"></script>
I'm new to JavaScript and I'm trying to get a slideshow working in my website. I'm following this tutorial: http://www.queness.com/post/1450/jquery-photo-slide-show-with-slick-caption-tutorial-revisited
Unfortunately it doesn't go into a beginners level of detail as to how to get it installed. I know what I should do with the HTML and the CSS but I'm not sure where I should be putting the JavaScript. Does it go in a separate file or something? How do I get it to work?
Also I'm trying to do this within cakephp so if there's any specific cakey thing I can do that'd be awesome!
Copy all that JavaScript on your referenced page. Save to a new file slide.js or something like that.
Edit your HTML document to include a reference to the jQuery libraby, and that new JavaScript file you've just created:
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://mysite.com/slide.js" />
You can put JavaScript in an external file with a .js extension, and include that in an HTML page using the script tag:
<script type="text/javascript" src="yourscript.js"></script>
Alternatively, you can write the script directly in the script element:
<script type="text/javascript">
//Your script here
</script>
Also note that as the tutorial you are following uses jQuery, you will need to download and include the jQuery library in your page.
The script tags can be placed anywhere in the document, but are usually found inside the head tag, or just before the closing body tag.
Welcome on SO Helen.
That script uses the jQuery library so you have to also include that. http://jquery.com/
JavaScript can best be placed in seperate file with the extension .js
Add the javascript files just before the </body> tag on your page like:
<script src="/js/jquery/jquery-1.4.4.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/js/jquery/jquery-slideshow2.js" type="text/javascript"></script>