I suggest you also try and change your development method to develop locally on your machine and test it there instead of going to the pain of working on an FTP server and - or at least try a tool like Aptana to deal with the FTP.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:16 PM, alex <[email protected]> wrote: > > thank you so much this will really help. i think the file already > loads when i visit my page so commenting them out may not work. but im > going to try putting in different javascript farther down the page > maybe outside the header to see if that will override the linked > javascript, thats in the header file of the page. > > On Feb 23, 12:11 pm, John J Barton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Javascript is compiled in the order it appears and then the top level > > code runs. That's it. > > > > So if inline comes first, its first; if included file comes first it > > is first. > > > > By 'order' I mean in time, not space. So if you add a script tag > > inline or not later, that code overrides any definitions that match > > from earlier code. > > > > If you don't want js files in the header from loading, comment them > > out. > > > > jjb > > > > On Feb 23, 8:53 am, alex <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > this may seem confusing and i will be willing to clarify but this is > > > my question. > > > > > I want to try debugging javascript on one of my webpages and compare > > > it to another page that i am trying to get some inspiration from. I > > > would like to debug the javascript in my browser instead of having to > > > continuously go through ftp and overwrite files. > > > > > so i want to edit javascript in a page, i already know how do to this > > > with javascript embedded in the html as this is easy you just click on > > > it. > > > > > but what about editing external javascript files? and how they > > > interact with the page > > > > > if there are linked external javascript files in a page, and then > > > there is javascript code embedded in the actual page. does one take > > > presedence over the other or is an error created? > > > > > can you override the linked javascript somehow, maybe by changing the > > > links to a different page? because it loads when the page loads even > > > if you changed the urls to reference different .js files how would you > > > get the page to read the external files with the new link. > > > > > is there a way to keep linked .js files in the header from loading? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
