It worked

xyphlo — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 22:07:45 +0000

Thank you. I left this on the web page: <script src="scripts.js" language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">

</script> and everything else in the js file and it seemed to work. Thanks for your help.

Busy — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:51:04 +0000

yes take out language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
, should just be the javascript code in there

js file problems

xyphlo — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:41:27 +0000

Yes, I took out the <scripts> tags. My file begins with this: language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">

Should that also be taken out? My error says it's line 2 character 24 which I think is the "type" part. Do you see anything wrong with this script? Thanks for your help

Busy — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:31:41 +0000

did you put <script> tags inside the .js file? if so take them out.

The error should of told you the line number and postion on the line of the problem

Script error

xyphlo — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:40:57 +0000

I tried referencing the js file I created on a test page and I received an Internet Explorer script error. How should I resolve this? It said it was an "Expected" error.

timjpriebe — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:09:06 +0000

Oh, and here's a tutorial on using external javascript files:

http://www.tizag.com/javascriptT/javascriptexternal.php

timjpriebe — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:08:09 +0000

It should work fine. Saying a server doesn't support JS files is like saying a server doesn't support HTML files. It's just never true.

The technical reason behind this is that JS and HTML are what is referred to as client-side applications. Your computer is just downloading text from the server, then trying to execute or interpret that text.

What you sometimes have to worry about is server-side applications. PHP, PERL and ASP are all examples of file types that are server-side applications. The server first executes these files, then sends the resulting text to your computer.

Wikipedia has a couple of articles on this:

ddf1230 — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:32:18 +0000

A .js file is not the same as a .jsp file. I think maybe your host got confused. I'd be willing to bet that if you tried it, it would work. Try it out on a test page and see what happens.