Output javascript to html - how do I do it?

**shabbaranks** · 05-08-2012, 06:04 AM

Hi all,

First post and most definietly wont be the last as Im trying to learn a bit of html with javascript. I have a script which displays the current user accessing the page. What I am trying to do is have a file containing all my js code and then display the necessary's on my html page.

This is a snippet of my index.html

Code:

<body>

<div id="page-container">

<div id="main-nav">
	<dl class="hidden">
		<dt id="about"><a href="#">About</a></dt>
		<dt id="services"><a href="#">Services</a></dt>
		<dt id="portfolio"><a href="#">Portfolio</a></dt>
		<dt id="contact"><a href="#">Contact Us</a></dt>
	</dl>
</div>
	
<div id="header">
	<h1><img src="images/headers/Logo.gif" width=276" height=182" alt="Test" border="0" /></h1>
</div>
	
	<div id="sidebar-a">
	
	</div>
	
	<div id="content">

	</div>
	
<div id="footer">
	<div id="altnav">
		<a href="#">Home</a> - 
		<a href="#">Home 1</a> - 
		<a href="#">Home 2</a> - 
		<a href="#">Contact</a> - 
	</div>
</div>
<span id="username"></span>
<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/script.js"></script>
</body>

</html>

As I understand it the code at the bottom

Code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/script.js"></script>

points to my javascript code which is here:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">    
var objUserInfo = new ActiveXObject("WScript.network");  
document.getElementById('username').innerHTML = objUserInfo.Username;
</script>

And should display the logged in user here:

Code:

<span id="username"></span>

But its currently blank - any ideas please?

**holyhttp** · 05-10-2012, 11:15 AM

Your index.html page is not well formed: doctype, html, head missing.
It works for me in IE when I use the following HTML:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Test page</title>
</head>
<body>
<span id="username"></span>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
var objUserInfo = new ActiveXObject("WScript.network");
document.getElementById('username').innerHTML = objUserInfo.Username;
</script>
</body>
</html>

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