Code Style: The onclick event on my button is not working! (stub article)

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A: In a situation like this the failure of your Javascript could originate at any number of levels. It is very important to see the whole system to understand what is going on, but these basic debugging steps should help.

Is the Javascript code actually loaded into the page?
Is the Javascript code parsed successfully?
Is the event handler actually called?

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