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Ime Ime
Ime Ime

Reputation: 131

For loop invalid character javascript

I have issue in firefox 22 and IE (basic from win7) finds invalid character error in trivial for loops. Code works fine in Opera. Here is the trivial testcase:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
...
<body>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
for(var i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
   alert("ccc");
​}//INVALID CHARACTER IN THIS LINE
</script>
...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 465

Answers (2)

tony
tony

Reputation: 887

If you paste you code into jsbeautifier.org you will see your problem right away. It is maked in red.

Upvotes: 0

Phrogz
Phrogz

Reputation: 303421

You have one or more bad whitespace characters in your source code, likely the result of copy/pasting from a web page. Re-type the content in a new file by hand, and watch the problem disappear.

Alternatively, delete every space/tab and return character from the file and re-type them.

In this case, the bad character comes before the } on the line you indicate. Place the cursor before that character and press delete/backspace and notice that nothing seems to happen. You have just deleted the bad character.

(Want proof? Copy/paste the content of the script block above into http://jsfiddle.net and notice the bright red bullet that appears.)

Upvotes: 3

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