Spring boot javascript not executing?

Question

I'm working on a spring mvc application, and my javascript is directly in my html files. For whatever reason, this code is never executed. I even have a coded in breakpoint and it's never hit. No errors or anything are thrown from the chrome debugger. It seems like nothing runs at all, even when I write jibberish. I've tried explicitly defining jquery in case there were any conflicts, but there is nothing. This is the code on the bottom of my page.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js">
    $(document).ready(function(e){
        debugger;
        alert( "ready!" );

    });
</script>

Answer 1

You should not use any script inside the script tag which is used to link a js file. Create another script tag and paste your code in it:

 <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ alert("ready!"); }); </script>