programmers in the house am baffled with this, which place is better for the javascript code to be placed, inline or external, because there are some code working in inline and it not working in external.


help an upcoming programmer

It is impossible that some codes work inline and not external.
All javaScript codes can work properly inline or external. But your usage matters, you might have made a mistake somewhere.

dhtml18:
It is impossible that some codes work inline and not external.
All javaScript codes can work properly inline or external. But your usage matters, you might have made a mistake somewhere.

Try this:
In the html file type <p id="text">some text</p>

Then go to the external JavaScript and type this

alert(document.getElementById("text".innerHTML);

Provide a full sample code of what you are saying, you can post it on pastebin.com for example and share it here.

nunamyeong:



Try this:
In the html file type <p id="text">some text</p>

Then go to the external JavaScript and type this

alert(document.getElementById("text".innerHTML);

Works fine.

sinequanon:

Works fine.

may be it because of the sublime text am using

nunamyeong:



may be it because of the sublime text am using

Probably not. I can guess what may be wrong.

Your OP needs to contain a bit more information.

Don't be lazy. Folks whom you are asking to help you may not be inclined to work harder than you.

Na wa o

dhtml18:
It is impossible that some codes work inline and not external.
All javaScript codes can work properly inline or external. But your usage matters, you might have made a mistake somewhere.

Inline is better. When you use external, the user browser is forced make one extra http request for that file. In case u are not aware, it is possible to inline some assets like images in binary format. It may make the code less readable but more efficient in terms of speed of page load. In other words, if you can bare the pain of reading and editing the code, end users benefit.

sinequanon:


Probably not. I can guess what may be wrong.

Your OP needs to contain a bit more information.

Don't be lazy. Folks whom you are asking to help you may not be inclined to work harder than you.

bro. have gone over it again, and have found solution to it.

thanks

nunamyeong:



bro. have gone over it again, and have found solution to it.

thanks

That's good.

The more effort you put in, the easier it is to remember in the long term.

Answers on a plate are a false economy in effort.

One ironic thing, though...

Your OP says, "help an upcoming programmer".

What goes around comes around.

Why not spend a little time helping upcoming programmers like yourself, by explaining what you did?

nunamyeong:



bro. have gone over it again, and have found solution to it.

thanks

And will not share the solution with other learners and curious minds? Never again come to this board with your problems, i have marked your username and will never respond to your post.

dhtml18:

And will not share the solution with other learners and curious minds? Never again come to this board with your problems, i have marked your username and will never respond to your post.

bro, we no dey fight na, this is what i did, i move the code back to the external javascript file and applied the function code,
i.e document.getElementById("text".innerHTML=function() {
the action i.e alert("" or any action you want it to do.
}

after writing the code just put =function and what you want it to do .

thanks for pointing out my mistake bro

I was just joking o jare, you did well by-the-way!

nunamyeong:




bro, we no dey fight na, this is what i did, i move the code back to the external javascript file and applied the function code,
i.e document.getElementById("text".innerHTML=function() {
the action i.e alert("" or any action you want it to do.
}

after writing the code just put =function and what you want it to do .

thanks for pointing out my mistake bro

This is not what fixed your code. You may have done something else without realizing it.

All you need to show us your example is to copy and paste the code in your small html file into your post and put it inside code tags (by clicking the # button next to the quote button). Do the same with a small external file. Leave out everything that is not relevant to the problem.

What is important here is the order in which you have written your code, so giving us a couple of lines separately doesn't help us to help you.