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Attribute for <SCRIPT ...>
SRC = "URL"

SRC sets an external source for the script. If SRC is set then the contents of the <SCRIPT ...> element are ignored. For example, the following code loads a script located in the file myscript.js: 

<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript" SRC="myscript.js"></SCRIPT>

The script in myscript.js writes out the current date and time to the page:

right now: Sun Apr 27 2025 10:33:09 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

SRC allows you to create script libraries that can be used in many pages in your web site. There were some problems with the use of SRC for quite a while. The folks in Redmond were apparently drinking too much latte because MSIE failed to support SRC until version4, making for a heap of webmaster headaches. Fortunately the overwhelming majority of people have evolved to MSIE 4 or later so SRC is a reasonably stable attribute now.



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