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Reputation: 318

DataTables jQuery Plugin - Firefox claims "illegal character"

Got something like this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.13/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.13/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css">
    <script>
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $("#myTable").dataTable({
            "lengthMenu": [[10, 25, 50, -1], [10, 25, 50, "All"]],
            "iDisplayLength": 25,
            "order": []
        });
    });
    </script>
    <style>
    th,
    td {
        white-space: nowrap
    }

    TD+TD+TD+TD+TD+TD {
        color: white
    }
    </style>
</head>

<body>
    <table id="myTable" class="display" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> .... </table>
</body>

</html>

This works fine in Internet Explorer 11. Firefox 52 won't load the DataTables Plugin and claims SyntaxError: illegal character on the first character of jquery.dataTables.min.js loaded from the CDN. Also tried to save the js file and load it locally, still the same. What's going on here?

Thanks for help!

EDIT:

So I downloaded the DataTables CSS and JS file and resaved them with encoding UTF-8 with BOM. They were saved as UTF-8 (without BOM) before. Now it's working. Is this a bug in Firefox? How can I avoid this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 480

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 318

Resolved this with:

 <script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.13/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.13/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css" charset="utf-8">

Upvotes: 1

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