Script doesn't function when "served"

Discussion in 'JavaScript' started by dtolpin, May 29, 2009.

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    I'm re-educating myself after a long period away from PHP and Javascript. I'm totally perplexed.

    I've got a tiny script that illustrates my problem:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
    <head>
    <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
    function myfunction(txt)
    {
    alert(txt);
    }
    </script>
    </head>
    <body>

    <form>
    <input type="button" onclick="myfunction('Hello')" value="Call function">
    </form>

    <p>By pressing the button above, a function will be called with "Hello" as a parameter. The function will alert the parameter.</p>

    <br />
    <a href="javascript: myfunction('Goodbye')">TEST</a>

    </body>
    </html>

    When I send this page, using either a local or remote server, to any of my browsers, the javascript function does not work.

    If I open this "file" using any browser, It works perfectly.

    When I view the source either "served" or "opened" the text is identical.

    What am I missing?

    TIA,

    Dick Tolpin
    dtolpin@cdp.com
     
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  2. GreatMetro

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    Worked for me on my server. Where did you "upload" it to?
     
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  3. dtolpin

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    Originally I used my local server (XAMPP Linux installation on my windows machine). Then I uploaded the files to an active Linux server hosted by 1and1. I Have 3 browsers set up on my dev machine - IE6, firefox3, and Chrome.

    I get identical results on each of the browsers. Works fine when I open the file with any of the browsers but doesn't seem to see the javascript function when I serve up the file using "localhost" or the remote server.

    I've used "Firebug" to try and isolate what's happening. I can set breakpoints and see all values on the "opened files", but when I use Firebug on the served files I get nothing except "undefined" when I try to set a breakpoint on the "Alert" line.

    I'm sure I'm missing something very basic. I'll try rebooting my system next - just a shot in the dark.

    Thanks for the reply,
    Dick
     
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  4. dtolpin

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    Thank you all for reading my post. I just rebooted my computer and the problem went away. I don't have a clue what happened, but I learned that I should try reboots BEFORE bringing my problems to the forum.

    Thanks GreatMetro for your response. Just replying to you helped me think about rebooting my system.

    Thanks again,
    Dick Tolpin
     
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