System.out.println equivalent?

[Herbert Kornfeld]

How can you do what is an equivalent of System.out.println in Javascript in order to debug?
Many Thanks

[James Swan]

alert("my debug text");

[sunitha reghu]

use alert(" system testing");

[Paul McKenna]

to write it on the page you would use
document.write("Your Text");

[Bear Bibeault]

to write it on the page you would use document.write("Your Text");

This technique is only useful in on-page script that executes while the page is loading. After the page is laoded, this will not do what you want!
bear