JavaScript without HEAD

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October 1st, 2001, 10:59 AM

blaz

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JavaScript without HEAD

Is it possible to write JavaScript code without inserting fuctions into HEAD part of the page?

I generate my pages dinamicly. In PHP a always use the same file to generate header of the page. How can I then use JavaScript if I can't have JavaScript code in the HEAD section of generated HTML?

I really have no idea about JavaScript, sorry.

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October 1st, 2001, 11:05 AM

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Hi!

<script> blocks are allowed within <body> and </body>. Code in one of those blocks that is not encapsulated in functions is immediately executed after being loaded in the browser. So you can use functions here as well.

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October 1st, 2001, 04:47 PM

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HTML event handlers (onClick,onMouseover, etc.) are JavaScript (so, of course, is the javascript: url) and are found in the <body> of the document. You can reference functions in them, but also embed the JS right in the HTML.

You can also do this:

<body>
<table>
......etc.
</table>
<div>content</div>

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="myScript.js">

<....more markup...

where myScript.js is an external JavaScript file with nothing but JS in it. It will be written into the HTML stream right where it appears, as if it was hardcoded there. More...

October 2nd, 2001, 09:10 AM