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    <p>I'm building an ASP.NET MVC site where I need a tag editor, similar to the one used on Stack Overflow. I've already looked up how to accomplish the necessary autocompletion with jQuery UI, but I've run into a problem: <strong>when I place the script in an external <code>.js</code> file, it doesn't execute</strong>.</p> <p>Here is my <code>test.html</code>:</p> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt; &lt;title&gt;Test&lt;/title&gt; &lt;script src="http://jqueryui.com/jquery-1.4.2.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script src="http://jqueryui.com/ui/jquery.ui.core.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script src="http://jqueryui.com/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script src="http://jqueryui.com/ui/jquery.ui.position.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script src="http://jqueryui.com/ui/jquery.ui.autocomplete.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script src="jquery.tagautocomplete.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script&gt; $(function() { bindAutoTagComplete('#birds'); }) &lt;/script&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;label for="birds"&gt;Birds: &lt;/label&gt; &lt;input id="birds" size="50" /&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>Here's <code>jquery.tagautocomplete.js</code>:</p> <pre><code>function bindAutoTagComplete(item, otherRootDomain) { function split( val ) { return val.split( / \s*/ ); } function extractLast( term ) { return split( term ).pop(); } $(item).autocomplete({ source: function( request, response ) { $.getJSON('http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/search.php', { term: extractLast( request.term ) }, response ); }, search: function() { // custom minLength var term = extractLast( this.value ); if ( term.length &lt; 2 ) { return false; } }, focus: function() { // prevent value inserted on focus return false; }, select: function( event, ui ) { var terms = split( this.value ); // remove the current input terms.pop(); // add the selected item terms.push( ui.item.value ); // add placeholder to get the comma-and-space at the end terms.push( "" ); this.value = terms.join( " " ); return false; } }); } </code></pre> <p><strong>What do you think may be causing this problem?</strong> I'm probably missing some closing parantheses/braces in the <code>.js</code> file...</p> <p><em>Thanks in advance!</em></p>
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    1. COAre you sure the file's being included? Try just placing `alert("test")` in the file and seeing if it fires.
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    2. CO@Nick OK, will test in a sec. Should I put it after `function bindAutoTagComplete(iteme,otherRootDomain) {` or before? **UPDATE:** I've tried both ways; only putting it before the function declaration worked. That means the file is being loaded, but for some reason, my function isn't executing. What gives? Thanks for your help.
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    3. CO@Maxim - at the very top of the file works...anywhere in the base is valid.
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