Javascript tag having

Question

I've been seen some javascript coding enclose with . Is there any significant having it that way?

Code:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
<!--
      ...javascript code here
-->
</script>

Compared to this:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">

      ...javascript code here

</script>

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1507939/using-html-comment-tag-still-relevant-around-javascript-code — Praveen, Dec 18 '13 at 07:06
You don't need the `language` attribute either. Your sources for this code are pretty old. — Blender, Dec 18 '13 at 07:07

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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They used to be put as a fallback for browsers that didn't support javascript. You might find the answers to this question interesting: Are HTML comments inside script tags a best practice?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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answered Dec 18 '13 at 07:09

bigblind

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 18 '13 at 07:10

Well this is ok to have because you are using javascript in the Html file so the comment using  works only on html file so its fine, but if you was using a external .js file you couldn't use this method of comment because this is the commenting tag for HTML and not javascript.

Javascript tag having

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