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javascriptnotepad++
happy7777
happy7777

Reputation: 19

I can't run javascript on notepad++

So I found online javascript tutorials and I downloaded notepad++ to write my code. The problem is that I can't run it. I tried saving it as .html and then running it with mozilla but then I got the whole code written into the mozilla window. I mean if the code is var x = 5; console.log(x); I get this whole thing written there, not executed.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4040

Answers (2)

Víctor
Víctor

Reputation: 3039

Maybe you are not showing file extension in windows, and you think that you are saving it in "index.html" but you are saving as "index.html.txt" and mozilla opens it as a text file

Upvotes: 0

Spencer Wieczorek
Spencer Wieczorek

Reputation: 21575

JavaScript needs to be in a <script> tag for a HTML file:

<script> 
    var x = 5;
    console.log(x);
</script>

You can also define the JavaScript in a .js file and reference it by doing:

<script src="myJSFile.js"></script>

In that case you don't need to place <script> tags inside the .js file.

Upvotes: 3

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