Week 04: Assignment – Debugging
Update: April 27th, 2009
Assignment
Find and eliminate all bugs from the file below using the Firefox plugin Firebug
Debug this file: assignment_4_template.html (right click and choose ‘save as’)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 | <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Strict Template</title> <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- window.onload = doStuf(); // call doStuff on page Load function doStuff() { /* this function iterates through all of the tags in this document and alerts whether the tag has an even array index in a string and what kind of tag / var getTags = document.getElementsByTagName("*"); // get all tags in document for (var i=0; i < getTags.lenght; i++){ // iterate through the get Tags array if(i%2 = 0) { //cycle through the tags array and alert if the tag is even or odd and what kind of tag it is document.write('this tag is even and the nodeName is " + getTags[i].nodeName); } else { documennt.write('this tag is odd and the nodeName is ' + getTags[i].nodeName); } } } //--> </script> </head> <body> <!-- ... content and structure goes here ... --> <h1>Debug the javascript code in this file</h1> <div> <p>There is more than one way to debug JavaScript, the Firebug way is Awesome</p> <a href="http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/screencast/firebug-js/">Watch this video to learn how to debug in firebug</a> </div> <!-- The following is required for your homework to be graded! --> <div> <p>File Last Modified: <script type="text/javascript">document.write( document.lastModified )</script></p> </div> </body> </html> |
Publish your error free version of Assignment_04_template.html to your Assignments Page by next week’s lab
