The code below shows how to link to an external javascript file.
To link to an external javascript file, add the src attribute to the openning <script> tag. The attribute value must be set to the url of an external javascript file with a ".js" extension. The external javascript file should not contain openning and closing <script> tags, only the javascript statements.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Web Development Tutorials.com</title>
<style type="text/css">
</style>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript" src="externaljavascriptfile.js">
</script>
</body>
</html>
The code above creates a web page which links to an external javascript file with the javascript statement below.
document.write("I now know how to link to an external javascript file!");
Notice that the external javascript file does not contain the openning and closing <script> tags.
The code above creates the text below.
Use the text editor below to practice what you have learned.
