[Javascript] What is this

Kim Hoogenberg kim.hoogenberg at virgil.nl
Thu Sep 23 09:19:09 CDT 2004


Grinwald, Uri wrote:

>That's weird.
>I tried using the /> to close a tag as it were in an example I am
>looking at and for some reason dreamweaver highlights my code in yellow
>as an error?
>
>When I replace the symbol with the actual > it renders correctly.
>
>Any ideas why?
>
>Thanks
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hakan M (Backbase) [mailto:hakan at backbase.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:41 AM
>To: [JavaScript List]
>Subject: Re: [Javascript] What is this
>
>
>> = >
>
>/> = />
>
>Probably closing a tag prior to document.writing it?
>
>Grinwald, Uri wrote:
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>>Hi all.
>>
>>Can someone please indicate what this signifies.
>>I never seen this before and came across it in some javascriprt code 
>>/>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Uri
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See my previous posting.. There is absolutely no way that an Internet 
browser interprets > as being part of the HTML syntax.. Replacing has 
no use.. > like structures only are used to display special html 
characters as text in your rendered frame...

Kim
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