What's up this this Javascript?

**mtairhead** · 05-17-2005, 09:58 PM

What's wrong with this javascript? When I view the page from my computer, it functions fine... But when I upload it...Nothing!

I call a javascript file in each page of the site. Here is how I call it:

HTML Code:

<body>
<p>
  <script language="JavaScript" src="header.js"></script>

In the same directory as the page, is this header.js file:

Code:

document.write("<center><table><tr height='25'><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src='../images/universal/banner.gif'></td></tr></table>")
document.write("<table bgcolor='ddddd'><tr><td width='157'><center><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif' size='2'><a href='about.htm'>about</a></font></center></td><td width='157'><center><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif' size='2'><a href='login.htm'>log-in</a></font></center></td><td width='157'><center><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif' size='2'>register</font></center></td><td width='157'><center><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif' size='2'><a href='blog.htm'>announcements/blog</a></font></center></td><td width='157'><center><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif' size='2'>dev forums</font></center></td></tr></table></center>")
document.write("<table><tr height='5'><td></td></tr></table>")
document.write("<table align='center' bgcolor='dddd99'><tr><td width='800'>")

Like I said - Works great on my own computer. Once uploaded (Same file structure, etc) it no longer works...

**desertland** · 05-18-2005, 12:38 AM

I was able to get it to work without any problems. You can try looking at the header.js file directly (type the path to it in the address bar) to make sure it's there. If that works, try setting the 'src' attribute to the full URL of the header.js file instead of just 'header.js'.

**rimian** · 05-18-2005, 08:12 AM

if you want to test that your javascript file is downloading then just put this in the first line:

alert("Yippee! My file is in the right place!");

if a message box doesn't popup then you've got the path wrong.

the alert box helps with testing almost anything.

**mtairhead** · 09:40 AM

Thank you!

I've taken both of your suggestions:
I loaded just the .js file in Firefox (And in IE) by using the file's complete URL and I also inserted the "alert" statement into the first line... It all works out, but only after I take out the first line of the script!

I decided after posting the intial request for help to do a little testing, and it turns out that once I remove the first line of script in the file, everything works great. Here's the line:

Code:

document.write("<center><table><tr height='25'><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src='../images/universal/banner.gif'></td></tr></table>")

When that line is in the javascript file, nothing in the code executes. In fact, when that line is present, I cannot load the .js file with the complete URL (The page is blank - Same URL!) and when I look at the source of the page, there's nothing there!

Does anyone know what's up?

Thanks for your help,

Andrew

Code:

document.write("<center><table><tr height='25'><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src='../images/universal/banner.gif'></td></tr></table>")

**mtairhead** · 05-18-2005, 09:55 AM

Update: It's not that javascript at all! The path to the image does not display the image! When I attempted to load banner.gif using its entire URL, nothing appeared. This annoys me, because I know the URL is correct. I've gone over it several times.

The title of the page is "banner.gif (GIF Image, 32x32 pixels)" - So..The browser does see an image, right??? Why can't I?

**chrishirst** · 05-18-2005, 10:43 AM

do you have XP with SP2 by some chance? because you are describing the behaviour of the ad blocker and the file is the correct size.

It won't block from the local drive but it does block when served up as a URI.

**mtairhead** · 05-18-2005, 04:57 PM

Oh I can't believe it. It was the freaken name of the file. Your post about ads made me think of it... It's just a main menu..Not an ad...But I named it "Banner.gif"...What was I thinking... If anything's an ad, it's going to be the file named "banner", and so of course Firefox blocked it.

Thanks,

Andrew

**dave123** · 05-18-2005, 09:15 PM

lol. Wow complicated!!!