>>This must be super newbie question.
>>
>>If I create a javascript function in my page javascript, like the following:
>>
>>function TestMsg()
>>{
>> alert('Test Message');
>>}
>>>>everything works. In the javascript, before the above function is written, I can call:
>>
>>TestMsg();
>>
>>and Alert shows the message.
>>
>>But if I move the above function to an external .js file (e.g. dmitry.js) as follows:
>>
>><script type="text/javascript">
>>function TestMsg() {
>> alert('test message');
>>}
>></script>
>>>>I check in the Chrome that the file dmitry.js is loaded. But when I call TestMsg(); in the javascript, nothing alerts.
>>
>>What am I missing?
>
>Unless you've swapped the code snippets above then, in the external file, the function should *not* be enclosed in a 'script' tag. i.e. this should work:
<!DOCTYPE html>
><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
><head>
> <title></title>
></head>
><body>
> <script type="text/javascript" src="dmitry.js"></script>
> <button onclick="TestMsg()">Click me</button>
></body>
></html>
and Dmitry.js:
function TestMsg() {
> alert('test message');
>}Thank you very much. My mistake.
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