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Dec 27.2011

JS never ceases to mystify me. Can some generous soul explain to me why this (simple) code doesn’t work:

<script type=”text/javascript” language=”javascript1.5″>
window.onload=message;

function message()
{
document.alert(“you are inside the message function”);

}

</script>
</head>

<body>

<script type=”text/javascript”>document.write(“hello world”); </script>

</body>
</html>

the file will produce “hello world” but why doesn’t also produce the alert message “you are inside the message function” ?

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@Logic_AliDec 27.2011 — JS never ceases to mystify me.[/quote]
You can usually minimise that by using the error console. There's no such function as [I]document.alert[/I].
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@xelawhoDec 27.2011 — you can demistify javascript a little by using a debugger like firebug.

then with your code you would get the message "document.alert is not a function"

so you would then maybe think of using:
[CODE]window.alert("you are inside the message function");[/CODE]
or even just:
[CODE]alert("you are inside the message function");[/CODE]
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@cyberootDec 27.2011 — sample js code alert

[code=php]<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function message()
{
window.alert("you are inside the message function");
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="message()">
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write("hello world");
</script>
</body>
</html>[/code]?
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@captsigauthorDec 27.2011 — Doooh!

thanks very much
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