Accessing external javascript file on local machine

[gordo3]

Greetings

I am attempting to run a web page on localhost (

http://localhost/test/index.html)

that accesses an external javascript file (scripts.js). The page just renders blank. If I embed the javascript the page renders correctly. Javascript file is located in same directory as index (test). My external file contains only code and my script tag in head section of index.html is correct.

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

My asp.net pages work fine and my pages access other external files, such as css. My local server is IIS 5.1 on Windows XP Pro.

Any idea why external .js file won't work? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks for your help.

 

[mbrooks]

Try this..

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

M. Brooks

http://mbrooks.info

 

[gordo3]

Page still renders blank; no error, just blank.

 

[mbrooks]

Your closing the <script></script> correct?

M. Brooks

http://mbrooks.info

 

[gordo3]

Well, I did close it the same as your first reply. However I just changed the code to explicitly close the script tag as in your last reply and it works. I am writing the site using the xhtml 1.1 doctype. I thought I could still implicitly close empty tags as <script /> but I guess I was incorrect in my assumption.

Thanks for your insight.

 

[trollacious]

Since the <script> tag has an explicit </script> closing tag, you need to use that, as you discovered. Would you use

<td />

to create an empty <td>?

Lee