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user3631654
user3631654

Reputation: 1785

unterminated string literal without breaking the line

I'm getting the following error: SyntaxError: unterminated string literal. Seems like there is a problem with the first data += command. What is wrong with it? I don't break any line.

        // Data
        var data = "<!doctype html><html><head>";
        data += "<script type='text/javascript' src='test1.js'></script>";
        data += "</head><body>TEST</body></html>";

Upvotes: 2

Views: 76

Answers (1)

Pointy
Pointy

Reputation: 413826

You can't include the sequence of characters </script> in a script block. The HTML parser assumes that it ends the block.

The typical way of handling that is something like

    data += "<script type='text/javascript' src='test1.js'></" + "script>";

The HTML parser does not understand JavaScript syntax. When it sees <script>, it just does a blind search through subsequent content looking for </script>.

Upvotes: 3

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