JeevesBond — Sat, 27 May 2006 01:42:07 +0000

Yep, Mr Awesome has a point. It's easier to keep everything as seperate as possible (e.g. instead of using use the AddEventListener function in a seperate Javascript file). JavaScript in one file, HTML in a different file and CSS in another one.

Then you'll have no confusion when you come back to your code in six months time needing to make a change.

CptAwesome — Wed, 24 May 2006 20:12:22 +0000

<script type="etc" language="etc" src="/path/to/file.js"></script>

and anything you would have put inside the <script> tags you put in file.js

swiftmed — Wed, 24 May 2006 16:13:26 +0000

how do i use external javascript mate? or do you know anywhere that can show me please?

CptAwesome — Wed, 24 May 2006 14:53:20 +0000

And all this is why you should try and use external javascript

swiftmed — Wed, 24 May 2006 13:07:53 +0000

Ideal, also thanks for the demonstration as well mate. thats really helped. i appreciate it.

JeevesBond — Wed, 24 May 2006 12:07:42 +0000

In fact you should definitely not use comments, they will cause your Javascript code to actually be ignored by future browsers. That's when XHTML is served with as application/xhtml+xml instead of text/html

And don't forget that

swiftmed — Wed, 24 May 2006 11:23:05 +0000

Didnt realise that busy, i use a program called internet business promoter and it always flags up about including them.

Busy — Wed, 24 May 2006 11:04:15 +0000

These days you don't need the comments, just remove them

of if you want to use the comments, use the

swiftmed — Wed, 24 May 2006 06:27:47 +0000

hi,

thanks for your reply guys, i did try that but it didnt work for me. I have been told elsewhere that xhtml doesnt like javacode and i have to rap it in {cddata} or something. going to give that a try in a bit. thanks again.

WebMaster94 — Wed, 24 May 2006 00:01:23 +0000

That should work. I've been having the same problem, so I'll try it!