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If you’re having trouble with some interactive content on a website, like a game or a form, it might be because JavaScript is turned off in your web browser. Here’s how to turn it on.
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Introduction
JavaScript is a programming language that enables you to create dynamically updating content, control multimedia, animate images, and pretty much everything else. (Okay, not everything, but it is amazing what you can do with JavaScript.) Would you like to know how to turn it on?
What is JavaScript?
JavaScript is a programming language that enables you to create dynamically updating content, control multimedia, animate images, and pretty much everything else. (Okay, not everything, but it is amazing what you can accomplish with a few lines of JavaScript code.)
What can JavaScript do?
JavaScript can do a lot of things — sometimes good, sometimes bad. It can validate form data before it’s submitted to a server, calculate sums, multiply and divide numerical values, and a whole lot more. JavaScript is used in millions of Web pages to improve the design, validate forms, detect browsers, create cookies, and much more.
How to Turn On JavaScript
JavaScript is a popular programming language that helps make web pages interactive. It can be used to create games, apps, and websites. If you’re new to coding, JavaScript is a great language to start with. In this article, we’ll show you how to turn on JavaScript in your web browser.
For Browsers
JavaScript is a website programming language that helps make webpages more interactive. Once you turn on JavaScript, you’ll be able to experience the full functionality of websites. Here are instructions for how to turn on JavaScript for some of the most popular web browsers:
Google Chrome:
1. Open your Google Chrome browser.
2. Type chrome://settings/content in the address bar and press Enter.
3. Select JavaScript from the list of Content Settings.
4. Make sure that the switch next to “Allowed” is turned on.
Mozilla Firefox:
1. Open your Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. Type about:config into the address bar and press Enter. In the search bar, type javascript.enabled.
3. Toggle the setting to true to turn on JavaScript or false to turn it off.
For Web Developers
If you’re a web developer, you’ll need to turn on JavaScript to test your code on websites. You may also need to turn on JavaScript in your browser so that you can see all the features of a website.
Instructions for how to turn on JavaScript in your browser differ depending on which browser you use. Follow the instructions for your browser below:
Google Chrome
1.On your computer, open Chrome.
2.At the top right, click More .
3.Click Settings.
4.At the bottom, click Show advanced settings.
5.Under “Privacy,” click Content settings.
6.Near the bottom, click JavaScript.
7.Turn JavaScript on or off: To change the settings for a site, click Manage exceptions…. To delete an exception or pattern, click x next to it; To add a new exception or pattern, click Add a new exception… and then enter the info under “Pattern.” If you want exceptions to apply only when using Incognito mode in Chrome, check Allow in Incognito under “Behavior.”; Under “Destination,” choose one of these: Block – Turns off access to a specific site; Ask first – Requires permission before allowing access to a site; Allow – Gives access to a specific site without asking first (not recommended).
Microsoft Internet Explorer
1.On your computer, open Internet Explorer.
2.Click Tools icon in the upper-right corner of the window., and then select Internet options from the drop-down list..
3.’ Select the Security tab..
4.’ In Internet Options dialog box, select Custom Level button.. The Security Settings – Internet Zone dialog box opens..’ In Security Settings – Internet Zone dialog box,’ scroll down to Scripting > Active scripting..’ status is set to Disabled’ then select Enable radio button under Active scripting > Scripting > Active scripting’ and then hit OK button at Warning! Any changes will take effect after you restart your computer.’ bottom warning message as shown image below:-
Scripting > Active scripting Status : Disabled after selecting ‘Enable’ radio button 5.’ After selecting ‘Enable’ radio button hit OK button again at bottom of Internet Options dialog box NOT at bottom of ‘Security Settings – Internet Zone’ dialog box as shown image above :- 6.’ If you hit OK button at bottom of ‘Security Settings – Internet Zone’dialog box without selecting ‘Enable’ radio buton then internet explorer will not enable javascript and display same screen as above with message enabled after restarting internet explorer as shown image below :- 7.’ If you hit ‘Restore Defaults…’ button instead of Enable radio botton by mistake while changing active scripting status from disabled to enabled state as shown image below :- You will get following message after clicking Restore Defaults…button instead of Enable radio botton by mistake :- Are you sure you want to change these settings? All custom security levels will be reset and replaced with default levels.’ 8.’ Now if we select Enable radio botton once again and hit OK buttons steps 5 => 6 => 7 => 8 => 9=> 10=> 11=> 12 going until show all content instead cancelling Information Bar menu item selected by mistake while trying enable javascript through customising internet explorer security level for internet zone as shown image below :- 13.’javascript enabled successfully message displayed if steps 1 going until 12 followed in order i e 1=>2=>3=>>4=>>5=>6==>7==>8==>9==>.10==>11 ==>12 are followed successfully coming going forward i e if we go ahead by clicking show all content link while Information Bar displayed at top instead cancelling it by mistake like step 13 showing in image below . We get javascript enabled successfully message displayed now .
Conclusion
All modern browsers support JavaScript. You probably have it turned on in your browser. To check if you have JavaScript enabled in your browser, please visit enable-javascript.com.
