External Js File Not Working In Html

From open a file ctrl o menu i select an html file.

External js file not working in html. Create external javascript file with the extension js. If you have more than one external javascript file then add it in the same web page to increase performance of the page. If you want to run the same javascript on several pages in a web site you should create an external javascript file instead of writing the same script over and over again. It might be that js scripts that worked for me in the past were built in the html file i ll try using my apache web server.

I m having a lot of problems linking my js file to my html file and i can t figure out what s wrong. I apologize in advance if my code doesn t post right. After creating add it to the html file in the script tag. And the testjs js file would look like this.

The src attribute specifies the url of an external script file. This is my first time asking a question on this forum. This is just an excerpt from the bottom of my html code where the script tag is. Jquery forum move this topic forum.

Function doload alert hello. Save the script file with a js extension and then refer to it using the src attribute in the script tag. A main javascript projects folder is saved onto the c drive then a sub folder with named c02 which is the name of the chapter then another sub folder which holds my html file and a. I would rather have my code defined in an external file so getting it to work that way would be ideal.

Let s say the following new js is our external javascript file.