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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Introducing JavaScript Link to an External Script

Abz Man
Abz Man
6,702 Points
Posted by Abz Man
Abz Man
6,702 Points

Have i made an error or is there a problem with the challenge? I find this super easy but for some reason it doesn't wor

dfs

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
  <script src="shout.js"> </script>
</body>
</html>
shout.js 
<script> alert ("I DID IT!")</script>

2 Answers

brandon downs
brandon downs
11,577 Points
brandon downs
brandon downs
11,577 Points

You are really close.. the first task in this challenge is asking you to load the external JS file into you index.html file

This is where you need to use the <script> tags inside the index.html file, nested inside of the <body> tags, you need to link to your external JS file, like this <script src='shout.js'></script>

once the external JS file is linked, you can then just write the alert in the shout.js file

alert('I DID IT!');

you were doing more of an inline JS method, and they were looking for you to link to the external JS file and write your code there

hope this helps!

Abz Man
Abz Man
6,702 Points
Abz Man
Abz Man
6,702 Points

Thank you very much!!!!!

Stephen Hart
Stephen Hart
6,133 Points
Stephen Hart
Stephen Hart
6,133 Points

Looks like you will want to remove the <script> tags from shout.js.

alert("I DID IT!");