1. For example, to add the "last updated line" to your pages, In your page text, add the following:
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
yada, yada, yada.
(Note: the first comment, "<--" hides the content of the script from browsers that don't understand javascript. The "// -->"
finishes the comment. The "//" tells javascript that this is a comment so javascript doesn't try to interpret the "-->". If your audience has much older browsers, you should put this comments inside your javascript. If most of your audience has newer browsers, the comments can be omitted. For brevity, in most examples here the comments are not shown. ) The above code will look like this on Javascript enabled browsers,
2. Javascript can be placed inside the element Functions and global variables typically reside inside the element.
Javascript can be referenced from a separate file Javascript may also a placed in a separate file on the server and referenced from an HTML page. (Don't use the shorthand ending "
