Javascript.js file problem

[greg59]

I was told,
you can place the link to a javascript .js file in similar fashion to a css page in your html document.

by doing

<SCRIPT SRC="javafile.js">

So I took my javascript and made a file called,
law.js..........
then in my html page I place

<SCRIPT SRC="law.js">

Now I have had this script in 5 pages and all work fine but
when I tried the above I get an error, am I not doing something right or do you want more information?
TIA!

[Android]

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript" SRC="law.js"></SCRIPT>
in the head.
I'm not a pro at javascript, but it's my guess that you need the language attribute.

[greg59]

Android,

Thanks;) , You helped me a bunch!

I was not putting <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript" ..in
the html page because I had it in the file well when I
first tried your suggestion I still got an error, so
I relooked at the law...file and decided to take out
the tags in the file.

One other comment for anyone who might read this
I did not have to put...<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript" SRC="law.js"></SCRIPT> in header for it to work....
it will run any place on the page.

Thanks again

[kdjoergensen]

the external library file (filename.js) must not have any tags in it. e.g. <script> tags should be in the HTML file and NOT in the library file.

example:

in page:
<script language="javascript">
<!-- hiding from old browsers
alert('hello');
//-->
</script>

external:
<script language="javascript" src="ext.js"></script>


In external 'ext.js' file:

<!-- hiding from old browsers
alert('hello'); // no script tags in this file
//-->

[giz]

The complete command should actually be:

<script language="javascript" src="law.js" type="text/javascript"></script>