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Can I put my client side JavaScript in a separate file and link it into a HTML document?

Mar 6th, 2000 08:13
Martin Honnen, Damien Sawyer,

Yes, the 
  SCRIPT 
tag has a
  SRC 
attribute for that starting with JavaScript1.1/NN3 and IE4 (I think 
IE3.02 also supports the SRC attribute though document.write inside the 
included code doesn't work.). JavaScript files usually get a 
  .js
suffix and have to be served by the web server with mime type
  application/x-javascript
to be treated correctly by the browser (otherwise they might show up as 
plain text).
So a complete tag to link in an external JavaScript file looks like
  <SCRIPT SRC="fileName.js" LANGUAGE="JavaScript"></SCRIPT>