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Firebug syntax error

test.html:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
                      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/SCHEMA/xhtml11.xsd"
      xml:lang="en">
  <head><title>Test</title></head>
  <body>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="test.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

test.js:

var a = 4;

Firebug:

syntax error
var a = 4;
 ^
Solution

  • Remove the language="javascript" it is not XHTML valid!

    Add also a character encoding meta tag.

    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />