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Electronic Resources: Troubleshooting ... and Beyond

A guide to assist with electronic resources access and alerting users to temporary outages.

Enabling JavaScript Index

Differences Between JavaScript and Java

JavaScript is a script employed in HTML documents and enables webpages to be more interactive.  This script is primarily used when HTML cannot achieve these more dynamic features.  JavaScript is a scripting language, while Java is a programming language.  As a programming language, Java creates applications that run in a virtual machine or browser. 

What is most important for the end-user to know is that they require different plug-ins.

Enabling JavaScript: IE 7 or higher

Internet Explorer:

    • Go to Tools and select Internet Options
    • Click on theSecuritytab
    • Click on theCustom Levelbutton to display the security options of your browser
    • Scroll down the menu for theActive scriptingoption and make sure Enable is selected.
    • Click OK and close this window

Enabling JavaScript: FireFox

Firefox:

    • Go to Tools
    • Select Options
    • Click on the tab for Content
    • Make sure the box next to Enable Javascript is checked
    • Click on the Advanced button for more options.  When you do this, a pop-up box will display with the following options:  
      • Move or resize existing windows: Uncheck this option to disable moving and resizing windows using scripts.
      • Raise or lower windows: Uncheck this option to make sure scripts cannot raise (bring to the front) or lower (send to the back) windows.
      • Disable or replace context menus: Uncheck this option to prevent web pages from disabling or changing the Firefox context menu.

Enabling JavaScript: Safari

Safari:

    • Choose Safari -> Preferences
    • Click Security
    • Make sure thus checkboxes is selected: Enable JavaScript.

Enabling JavaScript: Google Chrome

Google Chrome:


  • JavaScript is enabled by default; it is currenty not possible to disable JavaScript in Chrome.
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