More than a single script block within a single HEAD and BODY

Questions:

1. Can there be more than a single script block in a given HEAD tag?
2. Can there be more than a single script block in a given BODY tag?

To test, I tried the following code. None of the script gets executed.
Can someone please give me a direction as to what I may be missing?

Thanks.



<HTML>

<HEAD>

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript type="text/javascript">

</SCRIPT>

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript type="text/javascript">

</SCRIPT>

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript type="text/javascript"
src="TheExternalScript1.js"></SCRIPT>
</HEAD>

<BODY>
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript type="text/javascript">

</SCRIPT>

<P>Some intermittent text.</P>

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript type="text/javascript">

</SCRIPT>

<P>More HTML text.</P>

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript type="text/javascript">

</SCRIPT>

<P>More and more HTML.</P>

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript type="text/javascript"
src="TheExternalScript2.js"></SCRIPT>

<P>Finally, the concluding part of the HTML text.</P>

</BODY>

</HTML>

Water Cooler v2 wrote:[color=blue]
> Questions:
>
> 1. Can there be more than a single script block in a given HEAD tag?[/color]

Inside a script *element*, yes. You can have as many as you like.

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> 2. Can there be more than a single script block in a given BODY tag?[/color]

Inside a script *element*, yes. You can have as many as you like.

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> To test, I tried the following code. None of the script gets executed.[/color]

Because there are errors in the and HTML - *always* start with valid
HTML. The W3C HTML validator lets you paste markup directly into the
validation form.

<URL:http://validator.w3.org/>

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> Can someone please give me a direction as to what I may be missing?[/color]

See below.

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> 
>
> <HTML>
>
> <HEAD>
>
> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript type="text/javascript">[/color]

The language attribute is deprecated, remove it. Keep type.

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> [/color]

This is a meaningless script statement. To use HTML comments at all,
the closing tag should be quoted:

// -->

But just don't use them.

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> </SCRIPT>
>
> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript type="text/javascript">
> 
> </SCRIPT>[/color]

Comments as above.

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>
> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript type="text/javascript"
> src="TheExternalScript1.js"></SCRIPT>[/color]

What is in the external file? You should have a title element inside
the head. Putting one right at the top might encourage error correction
to move the closing head tag up higher and move the body up too -
causing the text written by document.write to be displayed (or not).
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> </HEAD>
>
>
>
> <BODY>
> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript type="text/javascript">[/color]

Here you are missing the closing quote after language="JavaScript

That will cause a variety of errors, essentially reversing the sense of
following double quotes.
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> <!--
> document.write("\[/color]

It is legal to quote new lines, but much preferred to use concatenation:

document.write("The purpose ..."
+ "<br>1. Use..."
+ "<br>2. To..."
);
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> The purpose of this program will be to:<BR/><BR/>\[/color]

Don't use XHTML style empty element tags in what is HTML (despite the
missing, required DOCTYPE element).

Forward slashes "/" within document.write strings should be quoted
because they should indicate the close of the script element, most
browsers tolerate them regardless.
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> \
> 1. Use an external script;<BR/>\
> 2. To use more than one SCRIPT tag inside a HEAD tag; and<BR/>\
> 3. To use more than one SCRIPT tag inside a BODY tag.<BR/>");[/color]

Fix those errors and apply to the rest of the page.

[...]

--
Rob

Many thanks, Rob. Mike, on another thread (two threads below) had
advised me with the same invaluable tips as you've given. Thank you
very much. I will incorporate them in any code I write from now on. I
wrote this snippet before I read the two replies (yours and Mike's).

I am sorry I forgot to mention that I had two external script files
with the same names as the references above (TheExternalScrip1.js and
TheExternalScript2.js) so there wasn't any problem with that. In the
external files, I had just written a document.write statement each.

I spotted the cause of the bug. I had not terminated the string
"JavaScript" in any of the declarations of the opening SCRIPT tag, like
so:

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript type="text/javascript">

In any case, I'll omit the language attribute and heed to the other
advise you've mentioned as well. Thanks again.

Water Cooler v2 wrote:[color=blue]
> Questions:
>
> 1. Can there be more than a single script block in a given HEAD tag?[/color]

yes
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> 2. Can there be more than a single script block in a given BODY tag?[/color]

yes
[color=blue]
> To test, I tried the following code. None of the script gets executed.
> Can someone please give me a direction as to what I may be missing?[/color]
[color=blue]
> <HTML>
>
> <HEAD>
>
> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript type="text/javascript">[/color]

A) language is deprecated
B) *** you have no closing quote after "JavaScript
*** That would be a major contributor to your problem
*** NOTE: This is repeated on every <script> tag you use
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> [/color]

As-is, this would cause an error, and probably cause the javascript to
stop executing.
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> </SCRIPT>[/color]

All the same comments apply to all subsequent <script> tags.

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