Implementing javascript for Navigationbar footer and Banner

Question

Our company has predefined layouts retrieved by js-files. I put the js files within the projects folder. More detailed I put them in a folder called javascript. This folder is located in the following folder "Project name"\src\web, i.e. the folder where jsp pages are normally stored by JSC. That`s why I reference the js files which should generate the borderlayout in the following way:
<script language="javascript" src="<intranet url/header.js" type="text/javascript"/>
                <script language="javascript" src="/javascript/horizontalnav.js" type="text/javascript"/>
                <script language="javascript" src="/javascript/leftnav.js" type="text/javascript"/>
                After that i invoke three methods from the js files, whereas the header.js is centrally maintained and the main file.
<SCRIPT language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
Running th eapplication doe not make navigation bar appear. I do not know why. Should I put the js files elsewhere (I cannot imagine)?
On the other hand it is no porblem to work with a company wide css document, which is also, like header.js, referred to by a intranet url and not located locally. So I really got no clue!!!!!!!!!!!! PS: I placed all js code in the body of the jsp page; first the reference an then the invocation of methods. Does anyone has ade similar experiences and resolved such a problem, any hints would be very appreciated Thanks
{drawHeader();
drawLeftNavigation();
drawFooter();
}

Answer 1

It is not obvious that your code sample truly illustrates what you are doing, but the "src" attributes on the second and third <script> elements look suspicious. The way you presented them, they will look for a file with URL "/javascript/xxxxx.js" on the host from which the page was loaded. Are you positive that this is the correct URL? Does the JavaScript console in your browser show any errors?
If "horizontalnav.js" is, in fact, in the top level directory of your web application, the proper URL would be "../horizontal.js" if you are using the standard "/faces/*" servlet maping in your WEB-INF/web.xml file (which is the default).
Craig
Craig