passing JS string variable to HTML file...SIMPLE!

Ads · Oct 31, 2001

I need to pass a variable from a js file into a html document for writting purposes. For example:

JS file (text.js)
-----------------

var wC='Hi my name is...'

HTML file (index.html)
----------------------

<html>
<body>
<script language="javascript" src="text.js">
document.write(wC)
</script>
</body>
</html>

QUESITON: How come I this doesn't work? It logically makes sense to me, but am unsure why it will not print the variable extraced from the JS file. I know the files are in the same directory...
Can anyone help?

grega · Oct 31, 2001

You need to do add a couple of extra script tags. I think it do do with the Javascript interpreter not parsing the include script until it encounters a closing tag.

<html>
<body>
<script language="javascript" src="text.js"></script>
<script>
document.write(wC)
</script>
</body>
</html>

Greg.

Ads · Oct 31, 2001

It totally worked...
Thanks alot, that would have caused hours of wasted frustration..

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