Tuesday, April 14, 2009

How and Where Do You How and Where Do You Place JavaScript Code?

How to put a JavaScript code into
an HTML page?

Use the <script> tag (also use the type attribute to define the
scripting language)
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
...
</script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
...
</script>
</body>
</html>


Where Do You Place Scripts?

Scripts can be in the either <head> section or
<body> section
• Convention is to place it in the <head> section
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
....
</script>
</head>

Referencing External JavaScript
File
Scripts can be provided locally or remotely
accessible JavaScript file using src attribute
<html>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript"
type="text/javascript"
src="http://somesite/myOwnJavaScript.js">
</script>
<script language="JavaScript"
type="text/javascript"
src="myOwnSubdirectory/myOwn2ndJavaScript.js">
</script>

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