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ITPRO

Hi everyone)Currently i am learning HTML,CSS and Java script.As we know we don,t need a web server to display html,css and java script on our browsers.Below is the code embedded with a java script which i wanted to display on my browser but it,s not showing the java script which is about displaying the date and time.It just shows the header called "Current Date and Time ".What,s the problem? Please help me if you have a solution to this problem.

<?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”UTF-8”?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd”>
<html xmlns=” xml:lang=”en”>
<head>
<title>Displaying Times and Dates</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Current Date and Time</h1>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
now = new Date();
localtime = now.toString();
utctime = now.toGMTString();
document.write(“<strong>Local time:</strong> “
+ localtime + “<br/>”);
document.write(“<strong>UTC time:</strong> “ + utctime);
hours = now.getHours();
mins = now.getMinutes();
secs = now.getSeconds();
document.write(“<h1>”);
document.write(hours + “:” + mins + “:” + secs);
document.write(“</h1>”);
</script>
</body>
</html>

Padonak

if you didn't try to make the code look much sightly and used the proper quote marks this could work

root

What are you using as an editor?

Suggested editors are plain text ones like notepad and the more advanced notepad++ or a HTML IDE.

For proper result, yes you do need a webserver, this then ensures any links, files you allow for download, testing of uploads will mean that your code will have everything ready to go and upload to a web server.

Finally, all web forums have TAGS that allow you to "Wrap" code segments so they are easier to read, please use them.

ITPRO

\\.\;1308307 wrote:
What are you using as an editor?

Suggested editors are plain text ones like notepad and the more advanced notepad++ or a HTML IDE.

For proper result, yes you do need a webserver, this then ensures any links, files you allow for download, testing of uploads will mean that your code will have everything ready to go and upload to a web server.

Finally, all web forums have TAGS that allow you to "Wrap" code segments so they are easier to read, please use them.

I used note pad as an editor.Really i need a web server for displaying the above code in the browser?
Sorry i have no idea which tags are you talking about for wrapping the code segments?

root

The TAGS are [ code ]...[ /code ] and [ php ]...[ /php ] and [ html ]...[ /html ] only code is uppercase CODE, php is PHP and you got it... html is HTML and the ellipses (thats these things ... ) represent the area you put your code in and you have no spaces in the []'s

Development servers come in various flavors, from EasyPHP to XAMPP (which is popular), try googling it.

Kevin2

ITPRO;1308515 wrote:
I used note pad as an editor.Really i need a web server for displaying the above code in the browser?
Sorry i have no idea which tags are you talking about for wrapping the code segments?

No, you don't really need a server to display your posted code. Open your code in notepad and replace all the curly quotes with straight quotes. The script will work.

Instructions for wrapping your code in "CODE" tags:
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/misc.php?do=bbcode#code

ITPRO

Kevin2;1308547 wrote:
No, you don't really need a server to display your posted code. Open your code in notepad and replace all the curly quotes with straight quotes. The script will work.

Instructions for wrapping your code in "CODE" tags:
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/misc.php?do=bbcode#code

Thank you very much.I just replaced curly quotes with the straight quote and it,s working.Can you please explain why curly quotes don,t work with a java script ?

Kevin2

ITPRO;1308809 wrote:
Thank you very much.I just replaced curly quotes with the straight quote and it,s working.Can you please explain why curly quotes don,t work with a java script ?

Because HTML and Javascript are plain text. Curly quotes are not. They mean nothing to either coding language, as well as any other that relies on the code being plain text. Curly quotes are for humans, straight quotes are for computers and servers.

Kind of like how commas (,) are not apostrophes (') [don,t != don't], and most people put a space between a period and the beginning of a new sentence ...

root

"Curly" quotes are "back ticks"

The issues of testing depend on what your page is doing, fine, test without a web server but as soon as you need to use AJAX, your stuffed, so you are best off using a development environment and get used to using a webserver for serving up pages for testing and you then begin to appreciate how PHP, HTML and JavaScript all can work together as well as other items like MySQL and SQLite.

Kevin2

I'm still trying to figure out how downloading, setting up, learning, etc. an entire server package solves a problem with curly (AKA "Smart") quotes, or as you call them "back ticks".

Seriously, that's your solution to a problem with a 12 line script that has issues with quote marks? Was the question about AJAX, MySQL, SQLite, or PHP? I didn't see that in the post. I saw a question about JavaScript and HTML.

But perhaps I misunderstood the original question...

ITPRO

\\.\;1308853 wrote:
"Curly" quotes are "back ticks"

The issues of testing depend on what your page is doing, fine, test without a web server but as soon as you need to use AJAX, your stuffed, so you are best off using a development environment and get used to using a webserver for serving up pages for testing and you then begin to appreciate how PHP, HTML and JavaScript all can work together as well as other items like MySQL and SQLite.

Again my client site development have nothing to do with a local server environment.Btw i already had XAMPP installed on my laptop.

ITPRO

Kevin2;1308861 wrote:
I'm still trying to figure out how downloading, setting up, learning, etc. an entire server package solves a problem with curly (AKA "Smart") quotes, or as you call them "back ticks".

Seriously, that's your solution to a problem with a 12 line script that has issues with quote marks? Was the question about AJAX, MySQL, SQLite, or PHP? I didn't see that in the post. I saw a question about JavaScript and HTML.

But perhaps I misunderstood the original question...

Yea that,s what i was also thinking about.You identified the problem well and solved it in no time )

root

Kevin2;1308861 wrote:
I'm still trying to figure out how downloading, setting up, learning, etc. an entire server package solves a problem with curly (AKA "Smart") quotes, or as you call them "back ticks".

Seriously, that's your solution to a problem with a 12 line script that has issues with quote marks? Was the question about AJAX, MySQL, SQLite, or PHP? I didn't see that in the post. I saw a question about JavaScript and HTML.

But perhaps I misunderstood the original question...

As for the setting up and learning aspect of a web server, you don't need to learn, you install a development package that is ready to go and use on you USB stick drive / flash media / hard disk or wherever you fancy trying to stick it. It is not much of a learnig curve and it benefits all concerned.

I am replying with the "testing" side of things if you must know, the benefit of having a webserver deliver the page and the browser use of its console logs for errors are a great benefit to web development, now if we are finished we can move on.

root

ITPRO;1308995 wrote:
Again my client site development have nothing to do with a local server environment.

I don't think you are understanding the issue. If you develop any kind of code, you have limited capability without a server. When you start delving in to the realms of AJAX and other client side elements, you need a web server, any HTML forms you make which rely on uploading also need to be served from a server.

Your development server can be on any PC you like, the one you work on is something you can also test on prior to upload to your productions server, that is how people developing web services will work, the bigger kids have the full train set.

in its simplest form, whilst you are able to test some javascript in your browser without a server, look at it in this light...

Testing with no server == bad.
Testing with development server == good.

ITPRO;1308995 wrote:
Btw i already had XAMPP installed on my laptop.

Then use it.