ON my local I am testing out stuff I've built.
This is the script I am trying to include in a file in the same folder:
<script src="/colorpicker/js/evol.colorpicker.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
The colorpicker is on my desktop in a folder called Work/demo/
The colorpicker is not working. What an I do to make it work on my local?
There are a number of things (but mostly XMLHttpRequest) that can be done using JavaScript that will be blocked from file:/// URIs for security reasons in some browsers. In general, for development purposes, I strongly recommend installing a web server (either directly on your workstation or in a virtual machine) and using that for testing.
That said, if you do want to test without a web server, then don't use root relative URIs. i.e. Do not start your URIs with a / character as that will hit the top of your file system, not the top directory that you consider to be part of your site.
python -m SimpleHTTPServer in the directory you'd like to serve files from. Then browse to 127.0.0.1:8000Since The script file is in the same folder with your HTML page, so you just have to include it with its file name only:
<script src="evol.colorpicker.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
