Extreme beginner here guys so please explain as easily as possible.
I've read multiple variations of this and still am unable to figure it out, any help is greatly appreciated.
What I am wanting is a local environment to be able to learn HTML & javascript, but cannot get the script source inside HTML to correctly reference the .js file sitting in the exact same folder as the .html file. I am testing in a Chrome browser just referencing the .html file on my local machine via file:///C:/JavaScript/Index.html.
2 files(index.html and JS.js), both located locally on C:\Javascript
HTML Code:
<!doctype html>
<head>
<title>Title in browser tab</title>
</head>
<body>
"Text on the page"
<script src="C:\JavaScript\JS.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
-Based on what I read, if they are in the same folder I should be able to just reference <Script src="JS.js"> as there is no folder structure to look through, is that correct?
-I've also tried to absolute path via <script src="file:///C:/JavaScript/JS.js"> and related versions of <Script src="C:\Javascript\JS.js"> that do not work either.
In my JS.js file, I have nothing but alert(); to test functionality, as my reasoning for incorrect sourcing.
If I simply write <script>alert();</script> without referencing any outside source, the alert works as planned.
Thank you in advance!
I'd recommend popping open Chrome's Developer Tools to see where the issue may lie (and, if you're new to development, these are tools that are built into Chrome that will make your life so much easier).
Your assumption about not requiring a path should be correct: if you're referencing another file that lives in the same directory, omitting a full path will cause the browser to assume the path is relative (e.g. "right next to") to the current file:
<!doctype html>
<head>
<title>Title in browser tab</title>
</head>
<body>
"Text on the page"
<script src="JS.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
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I'm experimenting with getting my "javascript parts" seperated from my html. I followed this post on stack overflow. My goal is to have separate files for each class.
I got it working one time.
But then I keep getting the first "old" output in the browser console even when its changed.
As if it's stuck in there. I tried restarting everything, the computer ect. The other pages in my app that aren't separated works just fine.
I hope someone can help :) Thanks :)
index.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>New page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>test</p>
<canvas id="canvas" width="1000" height="500"></canvas>
<script type=text/javascript src="{{
url_for('static', filename='js/main.js') }}"></script>
</body>
</html>
my file main.js is in the static/js folder.
first I wrote
main.js:
console.log("new text"); // changed the text
It's likely your browser caching the .js, try opening your page in a incognito/private window (chrome/firefox), clearing your browser cache, or do a hard refresh (Shift + F5).
You can use Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5 to reload your current page ignoring cached content.
Your issue is very probably just related to your previous data being cached by the browser in order to enhance performance and reduce the amount of downloaded data.
It's cache problem. You can use Flask-Assets extension so then whenever you make a change to your static files it will give it a unique version number. assets.%(version)s.js. Or you can just use Ctrl+r or Ctrl+F5 to purge cache.
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>
I am trying to use the CircleType library to curve some text on a html page. I am getting some strange behaviour.
It works OK if I link directly to the circletype.mins.js file on github.
<html>
<body>
<h2 id="demo1">This works OK</h2>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://rawgit.com/peterhry/CircleType/master/dist/circletype.min.js"></script>
<script>
const circleType = new CircleType(document.getElementById('demo1'));
circleType.radius(150);
</script>
</body>
</html>
If I download the js file and link to it locally I get an invalid or unexpected token error on the script. I have tried downloading the zip, cloning the git repo and running dos2unix, but can't get anything to work.
To make things even weirder, if I change the h2 value to the "Here’s some curved text flowing clockwise.", which is the value used in the online demo, it works both locally and when linking to the external file.
Does anyone have ideas what might be causing this?
Make sure you have <meta charset="UTF-8"> inside <head> on your html file
So, I have this really weird error. I am trying to link to an external JS file from my HTML file. Whatever I do, the functions in that external JS file can not be called.
This is my HTML code:
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<script src="cookies.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
//some other JavaScript...
function test() {
extTest();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<button type="button" onclick="test();">Test</button>
</body>
</html>
And this is my external JavaScript file:
function extTest() {
alert("Hello world");
}
(I simplified both code blocks to contain only the necessary lines.)
So, whenever I click the button, the function extTest() is supposed to open a popup saying "Hello world". But extTest() is not called. Instead, I get a ReferenceError saying "extTest is not defined". The problem occurs in Firefox as well as Chrome and Edge.
Both files (HTML and JS) are in the same directory on my laptop. I tried linking to the JS file with a relative link (as shown in the code above), a relative link using . for current directory (./cookies.js), and an absolute link (/C:/...). I also tried putting the JS file in its own folder and linking to it, it didn't work.
I'd consider myself rather a beginner when it comes to JavaScript, but I already used external JS files and it worked. Do you guys have any idea where this error comes from? I mean, I could put all the code from the external file into the script in the HTML file, but I'm really curious why it's not working the other way.
Any hints are highly appreciated, thank you in advance.
You can use just like this, you don't need to make another function inside because i suppose you make the js code in cookies.js
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<script src="cookies.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<button type="button" onclick="extTest();">Test</button>
</body>
</html>
I'd say initially it looks like you are declaring your function test but not invoking it. Try putting a line below that just has:
test ();
A question, if you similarly invoke your extTest function at the bottom of your external .js file, by which I mean again putting a line that says
extTest(); does it work as intended? If it doesn't, then there may be another issue at hand.
I'm trying to use Remark.js to create HTML presentations based on the template provided. The template includes the textarea tag with id='source' where the markdown is simply copied in. I wanted to go for a solution where I can leave the template and just change the file that is loaded, so that I don't have to work inside the HTML file and keep the markdown separate.
I've tried using jQuery (I'm a noob) but it does not seem to work, the page stays empty. Here's what I tried:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset='utf-8' />
<title>My presentation</title>
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='presentation.css'>
<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js'></script>
<script src='https://gnab.github.io/remark/downloads/remark-latest.min.js'></script>
</head>
<body>
<textarea id="source"> </textarea>
<script>
$('#source').load('presentation.md');
</script>
<script>
var slideshow = remark.create();
</script>
</body>
</html>
I don't get any errors in the JS console, but I also don't see anything. When I simply copy the file into the textarea it works, as expected, so the markdown file is OK.
I ran Chrome with the --allow-file-access-from-files so that at least I don't get the cross-origin requests error. However, that is not satisfactory as I intend to place the HTML file (and the related files) in Dropbox. If possible, I don't want to run a web server locally as it's just a 'simple' HTML file with some text copied in from another file.
What's the best way to achieve this, i.e. copying in a file as-is?
This willl solve your problem:
Create the remark after you loaded the data by adding the call to your callback function.
<script>
$('#source').load('presentation.md', function() {
var slideshow = remark.create();
});
</script>