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Asked: May 13, 20262026-05-13T13:15:42+00:00 2026-05-13T13:15:42+00:00

Someone please point out why this script is not working. It started out as

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Someone please point out why this script is not working. It started out as an AJAX script and I took line by line away until I was left with a function containing an alert and it still will not work in IE. So please someone put me out of my misery.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="Fri, Jan 01 1900 00:00:00 GMT">
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="Lang" content="en">
<meta name="author" content="">
<meta http-equiv="Reply-to" content="@.com">
<meta name="generator" content="PhpED 5.6">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="keywords" content="">
<meta name="creation-date" content="11/11/2008">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="15 days">
<title>Untitled</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="my.css">

<script type="application/javascript">



function showUser()
{
alert('blah');
}


</script>


</head>
<body>
  <input type="button" onclick="showUser()" />
</body>

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    2026-05-13T13:15:42+00:00Added an answer on May 13, 2026 at 1:15 pm

    Try using

    <script type="text/javascript">
    

    Also, the </html> is missing.

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