Best way to debug Javascript

[RPrinceton]

Hi Everyone,
I am relatively new to this JavaScript stuff so please bear with me. What is the best way to debug JavaScript? In particular tracing logic flow, examining the contents of variables etc. I have been using "alerts" to accomplish this but I believe there is a better way. Please advise. Thx in advance.
Regards,
R Princeton

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Microsoft's Visual Interdev is the best I've seen. They also do a free "Script Debugger"... or you could download Firefox and the Venkman JavaScript Debugger plugin.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[mwolf00]

I use alerts placed at points I have questions. If I don't wan't to stop workflow, I use the window.status=_____ so I can see things in the status bar.

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[ggriffit]

another option is to add a textarea to the page and dump the results into there.

 

[tsdragon]

Or add a span or div to a page and stick the result in there using innerHTML or innerText. I prefer that to the textbox approach (which I used to use).


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