Unkown Javascript error

[enderwiggin7]

addMainItem('index.html';'::Home';mwidth;'center';'';'';0;0;'');

The above line of code in my navbar is crapping at me for having bad syntax, something about lacking a closing brace. Clearly, I have a closing brace. Any ideas?

[ckeyrouz]

I think the separator between the parameters passed inside the function should b "," and not ";"

[enderwiggin7]

See, that's what I thought - but then I was checking out help sites, and they said use ";"

...and that still doesn't explain the ")" error.

[ckeyrouz]

Post code please to take a deeper look.

[enderwiggin7]

www.bebetterdomore.com/custom.js

line 121

[VIPStephan]

Originally Posted by enderwiggin7

See, that's what I thought - but then I was checking out help sites, and they said use ";"

...and that still doesn't explain the ")" error.

Really, this can’t be semicolons, it must be commas. What are these help sites that tell you this?

[enderwiggin7]

I closed the other link, but here is one of them. I could have misread it - I'm still pretty new to Javascript... programming in general, really.

I haven't had a chance to implement your CSS bar just yet - I will be very soon. The current Javascript bar seems to be working fine now on most computers, just not a few. The error seems to focus on that one line, which is the only section that doesn't load properly.

[ckeyrouz]

I saw in the site you have mentioned:
addMainItem("index.html","::Home",mwidth,"center","","",0,0,"");

so there are no ; only ,

My question is are you sure you did not miss any import of a js file where the method addMainItem is defined?

Otherwise post your code not the code of the web site you got your source from.

[enderwiggin7]

My question is are you sure you did not miss any import of a js file where the method addMainItem is defined?

Um, not really sure what you mean by this, sorry.

I never uploaded the code with semicolons to the site, but the rest of the code is the same. Now that VIPStephan assures me that they shouldn't be there, I won't be.

[enderwiggin7]

Update: the semicolons were replaced with commas, and uploaded to the site, and now my navbar has disappeared entirely. o.O

[tomws]

Use Firefox with Firebug. Quickly identifies javascript errors. Assuming your site is at http://www.bebetterdomore.com/, you have these errors:

missing variable name
http://www.bebetterdomore.com/custom.js
Line 29

bSIZE is not defined
http://www.bebetterdomore.com/style.js
Line 12

baseHREF is not defined
http://www.bebetterdomore.com/menu.js
Line 4

[tomws]

Now that I look at the code, I see the problem. VIPStephan didn't say to replace ALL semicolons on your site with commas. Use commas in function calls to separate the arguments. Use semicolons as line terminators.

[enderwiggin7]

I have FireBug - how do I use it to view Javascript errors? I can only see HTML.

Also, how do I define those two variables? Could they be causing the error that causes my nabar to work sometimes but not others?

[enderwiggin7]

Originally Posted by tomws

Now that I look at the code, I see the problem. VIPStephan didn't say to replace ALL semicolons on your site with commas. Use commas in function calls to separate the arguments. Use semicolons as line terminators.

Aha! Okay, I'll go and convert those now. Thank you!

[tomws]

Originally Posted by enderwiggin7

I have FireBug - how do I use it to view Javascript errors? I can only see HTML.

Open the Firebug panel. Click on something like the Script tab. You should see text similar to "XYZ panel is disabled." Click all of the checkboxes and click the Apply Settings button. Welcome to a whole new world of debugging. Celebrate with pizza.