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[reachmk]

I have a script which displays the current date in each page of mysite. In all pages i call the script as follows

<script language="javascript" src="http://mydomain.com/scripts/dispdate.js"></script>

This works fine on IE but not in NS.

The error it gave me in NS is :

JavaScript Error:
http://mydomain.com/scripts/dispdate.js, line
1:

illegal character.

9
.^



The line 1 of the JS file is

var montharray=new Array(all months);

However if i include contents of the script file directly in each page without using the src attribute, it works fine in both IE and NS.

Whats the problem?

[Vincent Puglia]

The outer limits to reachmk: come in please

Offhand I would say "all months". What is it? a variable with a space (illegal, use an underline -- all_months -- or mixed case -- allMonths)? an IE-specific keyword & variable? (still illegal, because it works for IE, it doesn't make it proper).

If it is a variable, where is it defined -- in the main page?

If the respelling doesn't work, I'm going to need to know the answers to the above before I can help.

transmission over, for now
Vinny

[Anarchos]

I believe he was using "all months" as an abbreviation in his post for "January","February","March","April", etc.

[reachmk]

Yep, Anarchos is right. Heres the full code if that may help.

var montharray=new Array("January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December");
var dayarray=new Array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday");
var today=new Date();
var todayy=today.getYear();
if (todayy < 1000) { todayy+=1900;}
var todaym=today.getMonth();
var todayw=today.getDay();
var todayd=today.getDate();
var todayh=today.getHours();
var todaymin=today.getMinutes();
var todaysec=today.getSeconds();
if (todayh > 12) {todayh=todayh-12; ampm="P.M.";}
else {ampm="A.M."}
if (todaymin <= 9) { todaymin="0"+todaymin;}
if (todaysec <= 9) { todaysec="0"+todaysec;}
var todaystring=dayarray[todayw]+", "+montharray[todaym]+" "+todayd+", "+todayy+" "+todayh+":"+todaymin+":"+todaysec+" "+ampm
document.write(todaystring);

Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions.

[etLux]

Originally posted by reachmk
I call the script as follows...
<script language="javascript" src="http://mydomain.com/scripts/dispdate.js"></script>
This works fine on IE but not in NS.
The error it gave me in NS is :
JavaScript Error:
http://mydomain.com/scripts/dispdate.js, line 1: illegal character. 9 .^

However if I include contents of the script file directly in each page without using the src attribute, it works fine in both IE and NS. What's the problem?

At a guess, you may have some extraneous "no-see-um" character caught in the beginning of your script file. While IE will tolerate this, NS will not.

Give a shot at opening that .js file in plain old NotePad and retyping the beginning of it.

[Vincent Puglia]

Hi reachmk,

Again, I have to agree with etLux. I just cut and pasted the code you posted and ran it under NN 4.7 -- no problem; it printed the current day, month, etc. The only other thing I can think of is: script tags -- there should be none. A js file cannot have any HTML tags of any sort in it unless they are embedded within a javascript variable.

Vinny

[etLux]

Good point, Vincent, and one I often forget to mention to newcomers to the art.

For the record:

A .js file is *not not not* and "include" file.

There must be nothing whatsoever but the script itself in the .js file -- and it must be in strict plain-text format.