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JPS · Mar 30th, 2006, 9:04 AM

Hi Everyone,

I am kinda new to JavaScript, but have been playing with it for work and my own fun.

One think I noticed is that Firefox 1.5 won't allow me to call a function unless its for an event link onclick?
E.g.
I got a form that has the fields format, delivery, and email_address. just below this form I place the script code.

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<script language="javascript1.4" type="text/javascript" src="javascript/grp_e.js>
   checkFormat();
</script>

now IE will run this function (which does some checking for me). Firefox won't execute this function though? But if I put the body of the function in place of the checkFormat call then both Firefox and IE will run the script. I'm just curious as to why the developers of Firefox would have it this way?

Mar 30th, 2006, 9:04 AM	#1
JPS Newbie Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	JavaScript and Firefox Hi Everyone, I am kinda new to JavaScript, but have been playing with it for work and my own fun. One think I noticed is that Firefox 1.5 won't allow me to call a function unless its for an event link onclick? E.g. I got a form that has the fields format, delivery, and email_address. just below this form I place the script code. (Toggle Plain Text) <script language="javascript1.4" type="text/javascript" src="javascript/grp_e.js> checkFormat(); </script> <script language="javascript1.4" type="text/javascript" src="javascript/grp_e.js> checkFormat(); </script> now IE will run this function (which does some checking for me). Firefox won't execute this function though? But if I put the body of the function in place of the checkFormat call then both Firefox and IE will run the script. I'm just curious as to why the developers of Firefox would have it this way?

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