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JavaScript Output for debugging

June 25
by briancarter 25. June 2011 09:35

Doing some debugging on a weird problem… I was asked about additional debugging; alongside Chrome’s inspect or firebug, one could use:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Learning Javascript</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>JavaScript Output for debugging 
	
	<script>
		document.writeln('This is document.writeln');
		alert('This is alert');
		console.log('This is console.log');
	</script>
  </body>
 </html>

Turned out, the sites using the HTML5 doctype (as shown) worked in IE.. the other one didn’t.  IE didn’t like the fixed position.  After some research, using this doctype puts IE in standards compliant mode.  Not sure why this isn’t the default.

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