variable scope 1

duffs · Apr 16, 2003

I don't understand why the below example doesn't work. I thought variables are global unless they are in a function:

test.html contains
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<HTML>
<BODY>
<script src="c:/tempcandelete/menutop.js"></script>
</BODY>
</HTML>

menutop.js contains
document.write('<scr'+'ipt language=javascript src="c:/tempcandelete/test2.js"><\/scr'+'ipt>');

if (blah == "blah&quot

{
alert ("blah&quot

}
else {
alert ("not blah&quot

};

test2.js contains
var blah = "bldah";
alert ("in test2&quot

;

When I try to render test.html, I get:
Error: blah is undefined
and then I get the alert "in test2"

Any way I can get this to work?
TIA

jemminger · Apr 16, 2003

test2.js is not included until the page loads, since you're using write()

=========================================================
while (!succeed) try();
-jeff

duffs · Apr 16, 2003

So, is there any trick I can do so that this will work?

jemminger · Apr 16, 2003

don't let your script in menutop.js that depends on test2.js fire until the page loads...

window.onload = function() {
if (blah == "blah&quot

{
alert ("blah&quot

}
else {
alert ("not blah&quot

};
}

=========================================================
while (!succeed) try();
-jeff

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