okay i found a chunk of javascript which shows a basic weak/strong etc thing for passwords

but if i have it in a expternal file (is <script src="file") an not on the page it dont work!

why is this?

i know it isnt a wrong path i have tested and used with full url...

i want my js external so i can use them on sepertae pages etc. which i need to.

PLEASE explain!

im no javascripter and need help Lol.

Dan

no idea do we get to see the code?

The code to include an external JS file is

<script src="filename.js">
</script>

You have to include the .js extension as well.

Then the next step you should see is in that external .js file, do you have the <script> at the starting of code and </script> at ending. If yes, you should remove them.

<script> & </script> tags are used to indicate that there is a script inbetween them. Because you are linking to a file with .js extension, it is understood that it is containing javascript. So you should remove the <script> and </script> tags.

Eg: If I was to include a external .js file to write Hello World, I would write on the below code in that file:

document.write("Hello World")

Note that I haven't included the script tags here
Hope that helps!

for some reason because i was plonking it in with a php echo ' ' so i had all the ' ' in the script \' ed out.

and for some reason when it was a external file (because i copied the \' ified code to the external file it wasnt parsing it

but i removed all the \' and now its working fine lol

so the whole include bit was fine.

okay... so why didnt it understand the code with quotes \' ified (i cant remember what thats called.

escaped

THATS IT! Lol..

so why dont it work with the quotes escaped when its a external file?

the \ is also the escape character in javascript, so the quotes would be treated as a literal character rather than a delimiter.