HTML script tag and element
Description
1. HTML script element either contains a client side script or refers the URI containing a client side script (like JavaScript) in an HTML document.
2. HTML script element starts with a <script> tag and ends with </script> tag.
Syntax
<script type="Script_type" src="ScriptName"> </script>
<script type="Script_type">Script statement</script>
Where Script_type is type of script like text/javascript and ScriptName is name of an external script file.
Whether both start and end tags are required
Both start and end tags are required.
Can contain
HTML script element can contain a piece of script only.
Can reside within
HTML script element can reside within head element as well as body element of an HTML document.
Attributes
Attributes specific to this element
Identifiers
Does not support.
language information and text direction
Does not support.
Title
Does not support.
Style
Does not support.
Events
HTML script element does not support event attributes.
Example of using HTML script element containing a JavaScript
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head profile="http://www.w3resource.com/profiles.html" >
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Example of using HTML script element containing a JavaScript</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function w3r(){
alert('This is an example of script element');
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="w3r()" >
<p>Example of using HTML script element containing a JavaScript</p>
</body>
</html>
Result
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Example of using HTML script element referring an external JavaScript
JavaScript Code
alert('This is an example of script element');
}
HTML Code
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head profile="http://www.w3resource.com/profiles.html" > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>Example of using HTML script element referring an external JavaScript</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../html/script/w3r.js" > </script> </head> <body onload="w3r()" > <p>Example of using HTML script element containing a JavaScript</p> </body> </html>
Result
