Why is my IDE giving me "errors" with this code?

Question

<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Indus</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div id="game">
        <div id="character"></div>
    </div>
    <script src="script.js">
</body>
</html>

I'm using Atom for this. For some reason the </body> and </html> is grayed out and the rest being properly colored. This is stopping my program from running properly (obviously)

id put it down to atom being weird because im not getting a greyed out error on pycharm or notepad++ — an inconspicuous semicolon, Nov 09 '20 at 20:48
`This is stopping my program from running properly (obviously)` I don't think that's true...? — Dominik, Nov 09 '20 at 20:50
It would not stop your HTML from executing in your browser. HTML will close tags automatically. — Dominik, Nov 09 '20 at 21:02

Uuuuuumm · Answer 1 · 2020-11-09T21:07:38.947

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You need a closing script tag

<script src="script.js"></script>

Script tag always need to be closed even if your tag is just referencing a file, opposed to surrounding actual Javascript.

edited Nov 09 '20 at 21:07

answered Nov 09 '20 at 20:48

Uuuuuumm

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since it is an external script this wouldn't be necessary – an inconspicuous semicolon Nov 09 '20 at 20:49
I've never know it to be different for external scripts, but I could be wrong. I know HTML will still function if you have invalid HTML depending on where/what the errors are. – Uuuuuumm Nov 09 '20 at 20:51
I've tried that, but I took it off because it completely grays out everything. – Gavin C. Nov 09 '20 at 20:51
@cls Try it with the script tags below the body – Uuuuuumm Nov 09 '20 at 20:54
@Uuuuuumm thanks, that helped. I'm not sure how to mark you as the answer though... – Gavin C. Nov 09 '20 at 21:02
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Don't put your script outside of the body... – Dominik Nov 09 '20 at 21:02
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Thx @Dominik. I retract my advice to put the script outside the body, unless you are going to put it in the head and use `defer` https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3037725/is-it-wrong-to-place-the-script-tag-after-the-body-tag – Uuuuuumm Nov 09 '20 at 21:09

Why is my IDE giving me "errors" with this code?

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