Error Console

shaz77_2

I just discovered this section within the tools menu of my web browser, what type of errors does it relate to? Could some explain this section to me as its something I didn't know existed until yesterday.

Thanks.

Alfie_E

Assuming you’re using Firefox, it shows JavaScript errors. Even if it’s a different web browser, it’s probably the same. When the web was first starting out, pages were static affairs. Pages sat there, as if in a book. If the content or appearance needed to change, the web server would have to send a whole new page. JavaScript is a programming language. It allows web pages to be more dynamic. Some of the most dynamic pages you’re likely to see are those for webmail, such as Microsoft’s and Yahoo’s. They have menus and you can drag the layout and objects on the page about. If you click on the user name at the top left of the posts on this page, a menu pops up. That’s JavaScript at work.

The Firefox Error Console also shows errors in what are called Cascading Style Sheets. Those are the latest way of indicating to a web browser how a page should look. The idea is to put all the style information somewhere separate from a page’s content.

You may well also have Java Console on the Tools menu. Confusingly, that relates to a different programming language. Java is designed for more general tasks. While Java can be used to make a simple interactive display covering part of a web page, it can also be used to make large applications that look and act just like all the others you run on your computer.

shaz77_2

Thanks for that response.

Within the error console section under warning there are quite a few different warning appearing, an example is the one below is there anything I need to do with these?

Warning: Error in parsing value for property 'font'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://images2.moneysavingexpert.com/css/index.css
Line: 175