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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Introducing JavaScript Link to an External Script

Zoe Campbell
Zoe Campbell
6,288 Points
Posted by Zoe Campbell
Zoe Campbell
6,288 Points

I have entered the correct answer to this challenge yet I still get an error. <script>src="shout.js"</script>

I a, asked to link the JS file to the html file. I have entered the correct answer to this challenge yet I still get an error. <script>src="shout.js"</script> indented within the body tags but the error says I have fogotten the src attribute.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
  <script>src="shout.js"</script>
</body>
</html>
shout.js

3 Answers

James Anwyl
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James Anwyl
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 49,960 Points

Hi Zoe,

You need to put the src="shout.js" inside the script tag, as src is an attribute of the script element.

For example:

<script src="shout.js"></script>

Hope this helps :)

Andrey Misikhin
Andrey Misikhin
16,529 Points
Andrey Misikhin
Andrey Misikhin
16,529 Points

"src" is the attribute for tag <script>

<script src="shout.js"></script>