I cannot seem to debug my JavaScript code with Firebug. The play button is greyed out. I use FireFox 3.0.4 and Firebug 1.2.1.
Are there any known issues?
This is the script I want to debug:
(breakpoints set on <img onclick> and function say()), the code executes well.
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery/jquery-1.2.6"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function say(text){
alert(text);
}
</script>
<title>DOM Level 0 Event Handlers</title>
</head>
<body>
<img onclick="say('Vroom vroom');" id="vstar" src="vstar.jpg" alt="vstar" />
<div id="console"></div>
</body>
</html>
Sebastian Zartner
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asked Nov 23, 2008 at 6:59
eddy147
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3 Answers 3
Check if you have "support for script debugging" enabled in Console. Its disabled by default for performance reasons.
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I usually see this behavior if I forget to set a break point, or I have set the break points in places that don't get executed (so execution never stops, so the play button would never do anything).
answered Nov 23, 2008 at 7:07
acrosman
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eddy147
Even a simple alert('Hallo'), whisch is executed, and breakpoint set, the buttons are greyed out and no debugging
You need to close all instances of firefox and reopen. Firefox has shared memory, so you cannot open a new page.
answered Jan 20, 2009 at 20:52
bander
ve never found a way to debug JS code thats embedded within a non .js file (JSP, HTML, etc.), so I`d be very keen to hear any solution to this problem