Hello, I'm new to this forum and JavaScript. I have the Beginning JavaScript book by Paul Wilton. I am having problems with the 1st and second lessons in the book on page 15.

I've entered the code correctly, however, the output does not pause between Script blocks 1, 2 and 3.

I've re-typed the code as shown in the book and I have had a friend of mine checking what I have typed and I am still having problems.

Please advise.

I'm also new to this forum (and Javascript) and have first seen your question now (november 2005). Therefore my sugestion is probably obsolete, but anyway. I think your problem is a security issue. Due to security reasons my browser (IE 6.0) allways ask me for permission to run pages containing (Java)scripts. If I accept, the script is executed. If not only the pure HTML-part is executed.
It is possible to configure the browser allways to run pages with scripts, but you probably don't want this.
I don't know how I can configure my browser to accept pages (with scripts) from my pc and run them straight out and at the same time prevent pages from external web-sites (contaning scripts) not doing the same!

Are you still having problems with this? If so please post your code for review. Thanks.

hi i also am a newbie to this forum and javascript.
i tried the first sample code for changing the background colour to red and with alert box- but the background colour didnt change- i am using IE7
any ideas?

JavaScript is a case-sensitive language. This means that language keywords, variables, function names, and any other identifiers must always be typed with a consistent capitalization of letters.