Import a JavaScript file in HTML file inside of try-catch block

Question

I have a HTML page into which I want to import a JS file as follow:

<script src="file.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>

But in case this file fails to run its scripts, the whole page obviously gets stuck.

Can I import that file inside of a try-catch block?

Answer 1

You can listen for an error (see this)

// make a script
var s = document.createElement('script');
// set it up
s.setAttribute('src',"file.js");
s.setAttribute('type',"text/javascript");
s.setAttribute('charset',"utf-8");
s.addEventListener('error', errorfunction, false);
// add to DOM
document.head.appendChild(s);

then in errorfunction, find out what happened & try to fix it as you would in a catch