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Old Pedant · 01-31-2013, 08:37 PM

Actually, it was easy to find. I loaded his code into Notepad and then tried to save it. Notepad complained because it found Unicode characters and I was trying to save to ASCII test file. So I told it to go ahead and save anyway, loaded the HTML into the browser, and *WHAM*. The debugger found it immediately.

I wish that JS instructors and JS books would *FIRST* teach students how to use the debugger. As part of the very first lesson. Life would be *SO* much easier for the students and we'd have maybe half the posts with such obvious errors as we get now.

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Old Pedant Supreme Master coder! Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 23,556 Thanks: 62 Thanked 4,055 Times in 4,024 Posts	Actually, it was easy to find. I loaded his code into Notepad and then tried to save it. Notepad complained because it found Unicode characters and I was trying to save to ASCII test file. So I told it to go ahead and save anyway, loaded the HTML into the browser, and WHAM. The debugger found it immediately. I wish that JS instructors and JS books would FIRST teach students how to use the debugger. As part of the very first lesson. Life would be SO much easier for the students and we'd have maybe half the posts with such obvious errors as we get now. __________________ An optimist sees the glass as half full. A pessimist sees the glass as half empty. A realist drinks it no matter how much there is.