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liorean · 09-15-2003, 10:40 PM

First of all, language attribute is deprecated. Use type="text/javascript" instead. Likewise, don't wrap your script in a comment as xml compliant browsers shouldn't parse comments even though they doesn't have to discard them.

As for the real problem, you can take multiple approaches to this:
- Use an external file instead.
- Escape &<>" with &<>" in the script (and suffer the browser incompatibilities this leads to).
- Use <![CDATA[ ...script contents... ]]> to allow any characters inside the script element

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liorean The thread killer Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Umeå, Sweden Posts: 5,575 Thanks: 0 Thanked 84 Times in 75 Posts	First of all, language attribute is deprecated. Use type="text/javascript" instead. Likewise, don't wrap your script in a comment as xml compliant browsers shouldn't parse comments even though they doesn't have to discard them. As for the real problem, you can take multiple approaches to this: - Use an external file instead. - Escape &<>" with &<>" in the script (and suffer the browser incompatibilities this leads to). - Use <![CDATA[ ...script contents... ]]> to allow any characters inside the script element __________________ liorean <[lio@wg]> Articles: RegEx evolt wsabstract , Named Arguments Useful Threads: JavaScript Docs & Refs, FAQ - HTML & CSS Docs, FAQ - XML Doc & Refs Moz: JavaScript DOM Interfaces MSDN: JScript DHTML KDE: KJS KHTML Opera: Standards Last edited by liorean; 11-07-2005 at 11:19 PM..