HTML will not execute JavaScript functions - javascript

I am trying to get a very simple javascript project going, but I cannot get any function to execute. Here is a simple example. It is obviously just an example. I have tried everything I can think of to get the browser to recognize that I am trying to call a function that has been defined, but it never does anything but just display the text, rather than call anything. In the below example, I simply get a page with the text: "varTimesTwo(3);"
<!DOCtype html>
<html>
<body>
<script>
function varTimesTwo(oneVar){
return (oneVar * 2)
}
</script>
varTimesTwo(3);
</body>
</html>

your code is wrong, you have to place varTimesTwo(3); inside the script tag, like this:
<!DOCtype html>
<html>
<body>
<script>
function varTimesTwo(oneVar){
return (oneVar * 2)
}
varTimesTwo(3);
</script>
</body>
</html>

Keep all JavaScript code in the script tags, or better yet, in a file
separate from the html file using <script src="myjsfile.js"></script>
You can use document.write(string) to write a string to the document.
This string is treated as HTML so you need to use <p>text</p> or <br> to get line breaks.
<!DOCtype html>
<html>
<body>
<script>
function varTimesTwo(oneVar){
return (oneVar * 2)
}
document.write("3 times two is "+varTimesTwo(3));
</script>
</body>
</html>
Alternatively, you can use window.alert(string) or simply alert(string) to pop up an alert box. But if you have turned off pop-ups in the browser, these will not pop up.
<!DOCtype html>
<html>
<body>
<script>
function varTimesTwo(oneVar){
return (oneVar * 2)
}
alert("3 times two is "+varTimesTwo(3));
</script>
</body>
</html>
console.log(string) writes to the debugging console, which you can see on many browsers with either control-shift-J or F12.
The javascript debugging console is also useful for learning javascript without messing with input and output. Anything you type in the JS console is immediately executed, so you can define functions there and play with them without having to write additional code to write the output or read input.
Finally, these techniques are insufficient for most websites as they are actually used. Instead, what is done is to define an html container element and change the text or html that is inside. jQuery provides a browser-independent method of manipulating the document to change items on the page.

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I need help understanding event handlers and functions in JavaScript?

I wrote HTML document and linked to my JS document.
when I execute the HTML file on my browser it only shows the "Click me!" button, but what I expected it to do was to show the result of my math function when clicked. But .. nothing happens. I'm very new to JavaScript so I'm sure this is a simple answer, but Googling isn't helping ... I appreciate any insight to what I'm doing wrong here.
Here's the code from HTML file:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=""en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<script src="JS/main.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<p id="Math">
<button onclick="myFunction()">Click me!</button>
</p>
</body>
</html>
Here's the JS file:
function myFunction(a, b) {return a * b;}
document.getElementById("Math") .innerHTML = myFunction(13, 4);
Not sure what are you trying to do, but if you want to change the content of the "Math" element, you must call the function with parameters (eg: onclick="myFunction(1,3)") and that function should replace the content:
function myFunction(a, b) {
document.getElementById("Math").innerHTML = a * b;
}
<p id="Math">
<button onclick="myFunction(3,4)">Click me!</button>
</p>
Also if you want to preserve the button after clicking, this should be located outside the "Math" element to avoid being removed when replacing innerHTML
You’re including you script file in the header, so it runs before the dom is available. When it executes, it won’t be able to find your id, so nothing will happen. You likely will see an error in the console that your document.getElementById call is returning undefined. Either include it at the end of the body, or add a defer tag:
<script src="JS/main.js" defer></script>
Also, as soon as the code runs, it overwrites the content of the p tag, including the button. Make the p and the button siblings.
One error in your html appears to be caused by an extra " in your lang attribute for your opening html tag. Try deleting it.
<html lang="en">

why this console.log() function doesn't work?

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>LearnJS</title>
</head>
<body>
<script>
console.log('hello World\nThis is me');
alert("This is an \nalert.");
</script>
</body>
</html>
I have tried this code and run in TORCH borwser... The only output shown is alert But it doesn't display output of console.log...
What is the possible solution...
I have use
document.write('hello World\nThis is me');
But this code doesn't feed new line so i was supposed to use console.log...
It is working fine here :). Run Code Snippet
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>LearnJS</title>
</head>
<body>
<script>
console.log('hello World\nThis is me on console');
alert("This is an \nalert.");
document.write("This is an document.write.");
</script>
</body>
</html>
Note:
developers use console.log() for logging useful information on browser console
document.write() modifies what user sees in the browser by adding additional content to DOM.
alert()'s are used to alert end users who access the web page on browser.
N.B If you're in confusion about How stackoverflow.com shows console.log() on a browser div. Then see here https://stackoverflow.com/a/20256785/1138192 it is kind of overriding the default behavior of console.log() to show the messages on browser div. Hope this helps :)
console.log() only displays in the developer console of the browser. It does not display on the web page itself.
Your code is not feeding a new line because \n only shows in the source code not on the page. To display a new line in HTML on the page you need to use a <br> tag or use other form of spacing.
So, instead of:
document.write('hello World\nThis is me');
You could use:
document.write('hello World<br>This is me');
However, rather than using document.write(), you may prefer to write to a specific element in the page. Below I give an element an id of data and then use the JavaScript code to write to this element.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<div id="data">You can put text here or leave it blank. It will be replaced.</div>
<script>
document.getElementById("data").innerHTML = "Hello world<br>This is me";
</script>
</body>
</html>
Notice also, I need to place the document.getElementByID("data") script after the div is created. If I place it before it will not be able to find it. The script code is therefore placed at the end of the <body> section. There are better ways to do this (such as placing JavaScript code in an external file and using defer), but for your purposes this should work quite well.

Access javascript method from another file in HTML

The question is trivial, but I'm dumb as rock with JS, and I'd like to save myself some of the precious time I need. For some reasons, nothing happens when I call a method from a javascript file in HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<script src = "game.js"></script>
<button onclick = "init()">Start</button>
</body>
</html>
And game.js:
function init(){
alert("external fn clicked");
}
Needless to say, the alert does not appear as expected. What am I missing?
The reason was entirely trivial - the console is actually useful (ctrl+shift +j on Windows and Chrome). The js did not load properly due to a syntax error.

Adding JavaScript code with jQuery.html()

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<script src="js/jquery-1.10.2.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
var x="<script>alert('hello world');</script>";
$("#div_one").html(x);
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="div_one">
</div>
</body>
</html>
Why does this not work? I'd expect the JS code between the script tags to be interpreted and see an alert message ...
What I want to do:
I have written a set of functions that add and delete items from an array depending on the user input (JavaScript). Then, I have a function that draws() a ul-list of the items held in the array. Behind each item, I want to provide a remove link, which calls a JavaScript function that removes the item from the array and then calls drawList() to redraw the list.
If there weren't that security policy, I'd simply do it as in the code shown above.
That is some weird browser bug I believe. For some reason you can't have </script> inside the script block.
Change to
var x="<scr"+"ipt>alert('hello world');</scr"+"ipt>";
Example on jsFiddle
That is not a bug. The problem is here:
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
var x="<script>alert('hello world');</script>";
$("#div_one").html(x);
});
</script>
The browser thinks the first <script> tag is associated with the </script> inside your code.
As you can see, the code is shown in the DOM instead of executing.
To further prove it, see this example:
http://jsfiddle.net/DerekL/Ah8Qz/
var x = $("<script>").html("alert('hello world');");
$("#div_one").append(x);
If you avoid the </script> closing tag, then there will be no problem because the HTML parser will ignore any open <script> tag inside <script>.
So to sum up,
Browsers does not have security in place to stop scripts being injected into your page.
This is no where near a browser bug.

Beginner JavaScript: using src

EDIT:[Honestly this works fine you can read my edit comment below.]
So I am very new to JavaScript. This book I have tells me that I can write the script code in another file that has a .js extension. What it doesn't tell me is what should be in that .js extension.
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of Document</title>
<script src="path/to/file/fileName.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
The content of
your page goes here.
</body>
</html>
Lets say I wanted to make an alert message in the java script file. Inside the "fileName.js" would all I write be:
alert("This is an alert box");
and then save it and call it quits? Cause that is what I have so far and nothing doing.
EDIT:
Ok I want to add this in for anyone in trouble like I was. Turns out, this works perfectly. The comments below are a great help for further information. But the thing I did not realize was that on my Mac I needed to start the path to file at /Users. I feel dumb but at least I figured it out. Thanks all for your help.
Use " instead of ”:
<script src="path/to/file/fileName.js"></script>
^ ^
Generally your js files will have objects and Methods that are called/used from you main page.
So you html wiil look like :
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of Document</title>
<script src="path/to/file/fileName.js"></script>
</head>
<body onload="showAlert();">
The content of
your page goes here.
</body>
</html>
and you js will look like:
function showAlert(){
alert("This is an alert box");
}
Look into events and listeners. For example, if you want the alert to come up when the page loads, your html file would have:
<body onload="functionName()">
</body>
And you javascript file would have:
function functionName() {
alert("alert message");
}
Usually you would write your Javascript code as a series of functions that you can call whenever you need. So yes, you can write a single statement the way you did but most times its functions.

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