External file forJavaScript

[Fred]

Can anyone please tell me how I can create an external file for JavaScript.
According to IBM, I need to use an external file for my JavaScript and
Stylesheet code. Any help for a novice would be much appreciated. If you
need to take a look at one of my pages (produced in FP 2002) please visit
http://www.book-holidays-direct.com/Jamaica.htm

 

[Fred]

Thanks for the quick reply. Could you please tell me how I go about creating
the external file. Do I use and text editor or what? Can this be done using
FrontPage, i.e. produce a page without the top & bottom boarders or what.
Sorry to be so ill informed.

 

[Steve Easton]

Using notepad and saving the file with the .js or .css extension.
Note that an external script file contains the actual script, but it does *not* contain the opening
and closing script tags.

Then place the following between the head tags of the page:
<script type="text/javascript" src="filename.js"></script> for a javascript
and
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="filename.css"> for a style sheet
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[Murray]

Actually, correct syntax would be -

<script type="text/JavaScript" src="yourpage.js"></script>

To create an external file for either javascript or CSS, you would just use
Notepad, or TextEdit, and copy all of the javascript or CSS from your page,
and paste it into a new document in said editors. Then go through what you
pasted and make sure it contains NO HTML tags, e.g.,

<!--

or

<style....

or

<script...

In other words, the external javascript file should contain *only*
javascript, and the external CSS file should contain *only* CSS.

Save the properly formatted and edited files, and link to them as already
shown. That's all there is....

 

[Fred]

Can you please tell me what command I place in the body of the page where I
want the script to appear.

 

[Steve Easton]

That depends on what you're trying to do with your script, what the script is supposed to do!!

Is it an automatic thing or is it dependent upon user input with a mouse??

What is it's purpose??

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[Murray]

It would depend on what the script was doing, and what the name of the
function that you need to call is.

 

[Fred]

Hi Murray and Steve,

It's an hotel search box which obviously has a lot of JavaScript in it and I
need it to load half way down the page. Would I be right in guessing that I
insert <SCRIPT SRC="thescript.js">
</SCRIPT> where I want it to appear.

 

[Steve Easton]

Yes

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[Steve Easton]

Place it in a table or cell

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[Murray]

Not necessarily. It would depend on what the contents of thescript.js
is/are. If it contains only function definitions, then you might need to do
something like this -

<script type="text/javascript">calltheFunction()</script>

Did you get any instructions with the script?