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theboyhope

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Say you have this in an html page ...
Code: 
<head>

<script type="text/javascript">

window.onload = function () {

   var el = document.createElement( "script" );
   el.setAttribute( "src", "new_js.js" );
   el.setAttribute( "type", "text/javascript" );
   document.getElementsByTagName( "head" )[ 0 ].appendChild( el ); 

   testing();
}

</script>

</head>

And the new_js.js file contains ...
Code: 
alert ( "New stuff loaded." );

testing();

function testing() {

	alert( "Testing function." );
}

The alert will run and testing() will run when called from new_js.js but I get a "not defined" error when calling testing() from the original page.

I suppose this could be caused by one of a number of extensions I have installed for Mozilla. Can anyone reproduce the fault?

Thanks.
 
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function testing() {

alert( "Testing function." );
}
testing();


it may be because of the order, the function defenition comes first then the call to the function...

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull
 
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No, that call from the .js file works, mate. It's when I call it from the HTML page that I get "not defined", even though I've already just called it from the .js file.

Weird, eh.
 
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theboyhope,

Must be some delay in compile of the append??

Setting a timeout made this work.

Code: 
<script type="text/javascript">

window.onload = function () {

   var el = document.createElement( "script" );
   el.setAttribute( "src", "js.js" );
   el.setAttribute( "type", "text/javascript" );
   document.getElementsByTagName( "head" )[ 0 ].appendChild( el );

   setTimeout("testing('in Append')",10);
}

</script>
 
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It does indeed! Good one, Lrnmore.

It's very strange to have to do that when I've already called it from somewhere else without a problem.
 
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