Both of these problems can be solved simply by using external files. You create one external file for your CSS and another file for your JavaScript. These could be named mysite.css for CSS and mysite.js for JavaScript. These files can be created in any plain text editor or html code editor, they are nothing more than files that contain most of CSS or JavaScript code from web pages.

With JavaScript you have an opening JavaScript tag, then a comment tag, then assorted functions and what not, followed by a closing comment tag and a closing JavaScript tag. Your external file would start with opening comment tag, contain all functions and such, and end with closing comment tag. You would leave both opening and closing JavaScript tags in html page. If you have more than one JavaScript on page you can move all code into one external js file. Simply copy it into file in same order as it exists in JavaScript tags on html page. You will only need one pair of opening and closing comment tags.

Once your JavaScript is moved off page you will need to tell web page where to find it. This is done in JavaScript tag that was left on page in head section. Right now this will be an opening JavaScript tag placed right up against closing JavaScript tag, with no additional code in between. You will place reference to external JavaScript code inside opening JavaScript tag like this:

script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript" src="mysite.js"

Placing CSS styles in an external file is handled in exactly same manner. Move styles into external file, and then refer to that external file with your style tag in head section of web page like this:

link href="mysite.css" rel="nofollow" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"

An added benefit of moving code into external files is that you can then change styles of your whole site simply by changing code in one external file.

Once you have moved code into external files you will have greatly simplified code on each page. This will take you a long way towards making your pages lean and mean, and very search engine friendly.

You can find sample external files for this article on my web site at: www.howtogurus.com/free-articles.html

Copyright 2005 - George Peirson

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