The .war is served from GlassFish v3. I am trying to include a javascript file from my jspx.
<script type="text/javascript" src="/base/interface/Service.js"></script>
I get the following in my http response
<script src="/base/interface/Service.js" type="text/javascript" />
The problem is that it should include the </script> tag. I believe this is why it works on Chrome, but not on Firefox or IE. Any idea how to force <script></script>
Update: Not sure if any of this is pertinent, but here is the beginning of my jspx file
<jsp:root version="2.0"
xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"
xmlns:fmt="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt"
xmlns:form="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form"
xmlns:spring="http://www.springframework.org/tags"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<jsp:output doctype-root-element="html"
doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"/>
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"/>
...
I used <script ...><jsp:text> </jsp:text></script> and that retained the closing tag. I think this is ugly, so if anyone has a better answer I would definitely be interested.
Unfortunately, jspx is known to "minimize" empty elements. One way to prevent the minimization without adding a space to the rendered HTML is to insert a comment. For example:
<script ...><!-- keep open/close tags --></script>
It is still ugly, though.
A potentially cleaner solution would be to create a custom taglib that outputs correct HTML, e.g.:
<m:htmlScript type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery-1.4.4.min.js"/>
producing:
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery-1.4.4.min.js">
Another alternative would be to encapsulate the tag in CDATA:
<![CDATA[<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery-1.4.4.min.js"></script>]]>
I covered this topic in more detail here:
How to produce valid HTML with JSPX? (not XHTML)
Yet another ugly solution:
<tag>${null}</tag>
Related
So classic problem, but having a horrible time on finding the actual cause. Typically when I see this error it's because the jQuery reference is after code requiring it, or back jQuery link, or jQuery conflict, etc... so far none of those appear to be the case. Unfortunately seeking out the solution to this problem has lead me to post after post of such cases. I'm sure my problem here is equally as simple, but over an hour of hunting, still no luck...
Edit: Additional information...
The solution file (which I've recreated multiple times trying to figure this out. Is a JavaScript Windows Store Blank App template and I'm doing this in Visual studio. The only references files is Windows Library for javascript 1.0, I have tried deleting this to test as well.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>HTML5 Canvas Template</title>
<style>
/* styles here */
</style>
</head>
<body>
<canvas id="myCanvas" width="500" height="500">
<p>Canvas not supported.</p>
</canvas>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
var canvas = $("#myCanvas").get(0);
var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
function renderContent()
{
// we'll do our drawing here...
}
renderContent();
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
It's states that JQuery referred URL is not correct
Try this:
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
I tried everything listed above and nothing seems to work until I put this string
<script src="../scripts/jquery-2.2.3.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
in the head section of the HTML file. So here's how it looks:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<!-- jQuery Reference -->
<script src="../scripts/jquery-2.2.3.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge" />
<title>some title</title>
</head>
<body>
...
And the js file is located at a level below in the folder 'scripts'.
Finally, the error is gone and what a relief!
In my case, the problem was that I was rendering my page over https but I was trying to request the JQuery file over http, which is blocked by many browsers for security reasons.
My fix was to change this...
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
...to this...
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
This causes the browser to download JQuery using the same protocol (http or https) as the page being rendered.
Some of my clients had this problem, because apparently they blocked loading Javascript from 3rd party sites. So now I always use the following code to include jQuery:
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
window.jQuery ||
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery-1.9.1.min.js">\x3C/script>')
</script>
This makes sure, that even if my client blocks loading the Javascript file from the CDN domain, the client still downloads the file from my own server, which is not blocked by the browser.
Anover variant, in my case - I was forced to use proxy. So - IE11--> InternetOptions --> Connections-->LANSettings-Proxy Server--> UseProxyServer - should be checked.
Also check awailability of jQUery script source, my worked variant in VS2012 - -just like in top example
I was getting this same error code:
(Error: 'generateText' is undefined)
...on the code
var bodyText=["The....now."]
I discovered on my text-editor(Notepad++), when typing many lines of text in the directly above the variable bodyText, if I didn't hit return carriage (enter==>WordWrap is off) just kept typing w/o return carriage and let the editor adjust text it worked?
Must be in the settings of Notepad++??
So classic problem, but having a horrible time on finding the actual cause. Typically when I see this error it's because the jQuery reference is after code requiring it, or back jQuery link, or jQuery conflict, etc... so far none of those appear to be the case. Unfortunately seeking out the solution to this problem has lead me to post after post of such cases. I'm sure my problem here is equally as simple, but over an hour of hunting, still no luck...
Edit: Additional information...
The solution file (which I've recreated multiple times trying to figure this out. Is a JavaScript Windows Store Blank App template and I'm doing this in Visual studio. The only references files is Windows Library for javascript 1.0, I have tried deleting this to test as well.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>HTML5 Canvas Template</title>
<style>
/* styles here */
</style>
</head>
<body>
<canvas id="myCanvas" width="500" height="500">
<p>Canvas not supported.</p>
</canvas>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
var canvas = $("#myCanvas").get(0);
var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
function renderContent()
{
// we'll do our drawing here...
}
renderContent();
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
It's states that JQuery referred URL is not correct
Try this:
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
I tried everything listed above and nothing seems to work until I put this string
<script src="../scripts/jquery-2.2.3.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
in the head section of the HTML file. So here's how it looks:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<!-- jQuery Reference -->
<script src="../scripts/jquery-2.2.3.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge" />
<title>some title</title>
</head>
<body>
...
And the js file is located at a level below in the folder 'scripts'.
Finally, the error is gone and what a relief!
In my case, the problem was that I was rendering my page over https but I was trying to request the JQuery file over http, which is blocked by many browsers for security reasons.
My fix was to change this...
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
...to this...
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
This causes the browser to download JQuery using the same protocol (http or https) as the page being rendered.
Some of my clients had this problem, because apparently they blocked loading Javascript from 3rd party sites. So now I always use the following code to include jQuery:
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
window.jQuery ||
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery-1.9.1.min.js">\x3C/script>')
</script>
This makes sure, that even if my client blocks loading the Javascript file from the CDN domain, the client still downloads the file from my own server, which is not blocked by the browser.
Anover variant, in my case - I was forced to use proxy. So - IE11--> InternetOptions --> Connections-->LANSettings-Proxy Server--> UseProxyServer - should be checked.
Also check awailability of jQUery script source, my worked variant in VS2012 - -just like in top example
I was getting this same error code:
(Error: 'generateText' is undefined)
...on the code
var bodyText=["The....now."]
I discovered on my text-editor(Notepad++), when typing many lines of text in the directly above the variable bodyText, if I didn't hit return carriage (enter==>WordWrap is off) just kept typing w/o return carriage and let the editor adjust text it worked?
Must be in the settings of Notepad++??
Today I started to use JQuery. I found this explanation of how to do it.
On that page I also have a complete code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/autocomplete/demo/main.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/autocomplete/jquery.autocomplete.css" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/autocomplete/lib/jquery.bgiframe.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/autocomplete/lib/jquery.dimensions.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/autocomplete/jquery.autocomplete.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
var data = "Core Selectors Attributes Traversing Manipulation CSS Events Effects Ajax Utilities".split(" ");
$("#example").autocomplete(data);
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
API Reference: <input id="example" /> (try "C" or "E")
</body>
</html>
I copy paste the code and it does not work. I have to mention that it works if I try it on the page that I have mentioned before (so JavaScripts are switched on in my browser).
I have to idea how to solve this problem because I have no error message and has no previous experience with the jquery. Can anybody help me with that?
ADDED:
I found a feature that can be important. When I load the above mentioned code/page, the auto-complete works as it is expected! If I reload the page, it change its appearance a bit (a space between the input field and top of the page appears) and auto-complete stops to work. Does it tell you something?
It's because it should be: $("#example").autocomplete({ source: data })
It seems the docs you found is outdated. A more up to date version can be found here: http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/
try .split(",")
var data = "Core Selectors Attributes Traversing Manipulation CSS Events Effects Ajax Utilities".split(" ,");
also attach a sorce
$("#example").autocomplete({
source: data
});
I have found several other questions here on S.O. (and the web in general) that ask roughly this same question, but the answers always seem to suggest other ways of structuring code that avoid the need for addressing this underlying issue.
For example, many people suggest (and a good suggestion, I agree) to put your code in the jquery load method's callback, on the calling page and not the called page. However I have unique scripts that may appear in certain resources, so I would not want to do that for every load and nor do I necessarily know what these scripts will be.
Here is a test setup to demonstrate what I'm trying to do. The short summary is that when I load partial.htm from main.htm, its script does not fire.
main.htm:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>main file</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul id="links">
<li>some page1</li>
<li>some page 2</li>
<li>some other partial page</li>
</ul>
<div id="panel" style="display:none; padding:20px; background-color:#CCC;">
LOADED CONTENT WILL GO HERE
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/path/to/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"> </script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$('#links a').click(function() {
var $panel = $('#panel');
$panel.show();
$panel.html('Please wait...');
var href = $(this).attr('href');
$('#panel').load(href + ' #content');
return false;
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
OK, very simple functionality on this page. Imagine there are many more links, and some of them may require scripting while others do not.
Here is partial.htm:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>partial file</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content">
<p>Hey, I am the partial file!</p>
<script type="text/javascript">
alert('I am some JS in the partial file! But sadly I do not execute...');
</script>
</div>
<div>
I am some other content on the page that won't be included by jquery.load()...
</div>
</body>
</html>
Notice that my script in partial.htm does not fire. So, my question remains: how to get this to fire, excluding any answers that tell me to put this in the .load() method's callback. (This would be because I may not have the fore-knowledge of which scripts these partial pages may contain or require!)
Thank you!
Update #1:
I suppose an acceptable answer is simply "you can't." However, I'd like to know if this is definitively the case. I haven't been able to find anything that officially states this yet.
Also, when I use firebug to inspect the panel region afterwards, there is no script element present at all. It is as if it is being parsed out by load.
Update #2:
I've narrowed this down to be a problem only when using the selector as part of the href. Loading the entire "somepage.html" will execute the script, but loading "somepage.html #someregion" does not.
$panel.load('somepage.html'); // my script fires!
$panel.load('somepage.html #someregion'); // script does not fire
I'm going to try and hunt down why this may be the case in the jquery source...
Well it seems that this is by design. Apparently to make IE happy, the rest of us suffer. Here's the relevant code in the jquery source:
// See if a selector was specified
self.html( selector ?
// Create a dummy div to hold the results
jQuery("<div/>")
// inject the contents of the document in, removing the scripts
// to avoid any 'Permission Denied' errors in IE
.append(res.responseText.replace(/<script(.|\s)*?\/script>/g, ""))
// Locate the specified elements
.find(selector) :
// If not, just inject the full result
res.responseText );
I'm wondering if, instead of just stripping out the scripts, I could modify the jquery source to include them in some other way that makes IE happy? I still have yet to find anything else on the web discussing this matter, I'm sure I'm not the only person stumped by this?
I have run across issues before with IE not running injected <script>s that didn't contain the defer attribute. This discussion thread has some good information about the topic: innerHTML and SCRIPT tag
I read that you should define your JavaScript functions in the <head> tag, but how does the location of the <script> (whether in the <head>, <body>, or any other tag) affect a JavaScript function.
Specifically, how does it affect the scope of the function and where you can call it from?
Telling people to add <SCRIPT> only in the head sounds like a reasonable thing to do, but as others have said there are many reasons why this isn't recommended or even practical - mainly speed and the way that HTML pages are generated dynamically.
This is what the HTML 4 spec says :
The SCRIPT element places a script
within a document. This element may
appear any number of times in the HEAD
or BODY of an HTML document.
And some sample HTML. Doesn't it look pretty all formatted here :)
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>A document with SCRIPT</TITLE>
<META http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/tcl">
<SCRIPT type="text/vbscript" src="http://someplace.com/progs/vbcalc">
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
...some JavaScript...
</SCRIPT>
</BODY>
</HTML>
And something to look forward to in HTML 5 :
New async attribute in <SCRIPT> :
Note: There are ways [sic] a script can be
executed:
The async attribute is "true": The
script will be executed asynchrously
with the rest of the page, so the
script will be executed while the page
continues the parsing.
The async attribute is "false", but
the defer attribute is "true": The
script will be executed when the page
is finished with the parsing.
The normal rules of play still stand; don't use stuff before it's defined. :)
Also, take note that the 'put everything at the bottom' advice isn't the only rule in the book - in some cases it may not be feasible and in other cases it may make more sense to put the script elsewhere.
The main reason for putting a script at the bottom of a document is for performance, scripts, unlike other HTTP requests, do not load in parallel, meaning they'll slow down the loading of the rest of your page. Another reason for putting scripts at the bottom is so you don't have to use any 'DOM ready' functions. Since the script tag is below all elements the DOM will be ready for manipulation!
EDIT: Read this: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#js_bottom
One of the aspects of placement is performance. See this fine article within the YSlow discussion for why it's sometimes recommended you put them at the bottom of the document.
As for issues of scope, the usual visibility rules for Javascript (vars defined inside or outside of functions, local, global, closures, etc.) are not affected so far as I know.
Position of script tag does matter.
If you bind a Function with document Element then the document element has to be loaded first before we implement function. suppose getTeachers() is function in getTeachers.js file.
This will give you an error:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Unit Teachers</title>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="getTeachers.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById("buttonId").onclick=function(){getResults()};
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type = "button" id="buttonId" value = "Press for Results" /><br />
</form>
<span id="results" /></span>
</body>
</html>
It gives error before head is loaded first and it cannot find element with id specified.
The below code is correction:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Unit Teachers</title>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="getTeachers.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type = "button" id="buttonId" value = "Press for Results" /><br />
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById("buttonId").onclick=function(){getResults()};
</script>
<span id="results" /></span>
</body>
</html>
If your script refers to an ID on the page and the page has not been rendered (i.e. script is before HTML, or your script is executed with onload, rather then the DOM is ready) you can also get an error.
It doesn't. Most programming framework scatter scripts all throughout the page. I've only rarely seen problems because of that (and only from older browsers).
If you pull Javascripts in through XMLHttpRequest, like Diodeus said, it probably won't work. In my case, there was no error, the browser just ignores the new script(s).
I ended up using this, not terribly elegant but works for me so far:
http://zeta-puppis.com/2006/03/07/javascript-script-execution-in-innerhtml-the-revenge/
How to use execJS: http://zeta-puppis.com/2006/02/23/javascript-script-execution-in-innerhtml/
Note: Watch out for < in this line: for(var i=0;i<st.length; i++)
If you have an inline script (outside functions) located before functions it may call, you may get an error because they may not be not available yet. Not saying it is always going to happen, just that it may depending on browser type or version.
Javascript's scoping rules are similar to perl - you can call any function at the current or any higher scope level. The only restriction is that the function has to be defined at the time you call it. The position in the source is irrelevant - only the position in time matters.
You should avoid putting scripts in the <head> if possible as it slows down page display (see the link Alan posted).