Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ben Bacarisse Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: How come I don't get a box when I add an eventlistener? Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 21:53:33 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 57 Message-ID: <87y22jlnaa.fsf@bsb.me.uk> References: <24969684-2577-4eb1-b316-0b490769f615n@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="5ae0e0286c332dbca1a767f49131889a"; logging-data="9459"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+C6OwlWeVpaoFIsOEBpP3OXchO2jOFrQ4=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:yx0ldhQeiLHeM9akitbDZPZwNBg= sha1:YyhsApZp01/aA6pUHRRlqvoGsCY= X-BSB-Auth: 1.70a29e80a74a7cad7b68.20220209215333GMT.87y22jlnaa.fsf@bsb.me.uk Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:40779 chad altenburg writes: > When I comment out the event listener code, I get a black > box. However, when I don't, I don't get a black box. Why? Because there is a syntax error. The code can't run if the interpreter can't make sense of what you've written. > >

> > -- Ben.