JavaScript How To
The HTML <script> tag is used to insert a JavaScript into an HTML page.
Put a JavaScript into an HTML page
The example below shows how to use JavaScript to write text on a web page:
Example
<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write("Hello World!");
</script>
</body>
</html>
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The example below shows how to add HTML tags to the JavaScript:
Example
<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write("<h1>Hello World!</h1>");
</script>
</body>
</html>
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Example Explained
To insert a JavaScript into an HTML page, we use the <script> tag. Inside the <script> tag we
use the type attribute to define the scripting language.
So, the <script type="text/javascript"> and </script> tells where the JavaScript starts and ends:
<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
...
</script>
</body>
</html> |
The document.write command is a standard JavaScript command for writing output to a page.
By entering the document.write command between the <script> and
</script> tags, the browser will recognize it as a JavaScript
command and
execute the code line. In this case the browser will write Hello World!
to the page:
<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write("Hello World!");
</script>
</body>
</html> |
Note: If we had not entered the <script> tag, the browser would have
treated the document.write("Hello World!") command as pure text, and just write the entire line on the page.
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How to Handle Simple Browsers
Browsers that do not support JavaScript, will display JavaScript as page content.
To prevent them from doing this, and as a part of the JavaScript
standard, the HTML comment tag should be used to "hide" the JavaScript.
Just add an HTML comment tag <!-- before the first JavaScript
statement, and a --> (end of comment) after the last JavaScript
statement, like this:
<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write("Hello World!");
//-->
</script>
</body>
</html> |
The two forward slashes at the end of comment line (//) is the
JavaScript comment symbol. This prevents JavaScript from executing the
--> tag.
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