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JavaScript

Posted by Benoit Tordeurs
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Benoit Tordeurs
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 9,400 Points

Javasript

There are two files: a web page, index.html, and a JavaScript file, shout.js. To run any programming in the shout.js file, you first need to load it into the index.html file. Add the required HTML to load the external JavaScript file into the web page. Make sure to add your code inside the <body> of the page. JS is on my tab, but I just can't do this, I had window 10 prob? Please help

1 Answer

Dave StSomeWhere
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Dave StSomeWhere
Dave StSomeWhere
19,870 Points

An external javascript file can be loaded into an html page using a script element with a src attribute pointing to your javascript file. It is common practice to place this just before the closing </body> tag to allow the page to load the rest of the page first prior to loading your javascript file.

So, if your javascript file is in the same folder as your index.html you can use the following (other wise you'll need to add the path to the file):

<body>

    <script src='shout.js'></script>
</body>
Benoit Tordeurs
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Benoit Tordeurs
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 9,400 Points

Thank you so much Dave! So nice of you Many thanks, Kindest regards Ben