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Shihab Al Khandaqji
689 PointsHow do you do it!
Looks like you haven't added a src attribute to the script tag. How do you do it
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script> src="index.html" </script>
</body>
</html>
alert("Hi");
2 Answers
Michael Hulet
47,912 PointsYou're close. <script> may not be self-closing when linking an external file, but all that should ever go between its opening and closing tag is JavaScript that should be executed. Instead, to link an external file, you use an HTML attribute. You're mostly right, but attributes go inside the opening tag in HTML, like the href in <a href="example.com"></a>. Likewise, you'll need to link to a JavaScript file in your script tag. Based on your answer, the file you probably want is shout.js
Shihab Al Khandaqji
689 Pointsso it is <script src="index.html"> </script>
Michael Hulet
47,912 PointsThat's better, but you're specifying the wrong file. You're in the HTML file, and you need to tell it about the JavaScript file with the <script> tag. The file you want is called shout.js