Content of elements must consist of well-formed mark-up

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So I was asking a question on here, got around to implementing the solution, and it doesn't seem to work particularly well - I keep getting the error "content of elements must consiste of well-formed mark-up"

I am using the NetBeans IDE.

It seems to center around the < before len

Here's the code that brings up this error:

function formValidation() {

var ids = ["orgname", "cultpicklist", "catpicklist", "servpicklist"],
    formValue = 1;

for (var i = 0, len = ids.length; i < len; i++) {
    if (document.getElementById(ids[i]).value === "") {
       formValue = 0;
       break;
    }

 if (formValue == 1) {
           return true;
      } else if (formValue == 0) {
           alert('Please fill out all required fields');
           return false;
      }
}

i would assume that `content of elements must consiste of well-formed mark-up` is not javascript related but somewhere else. — david, Dec 05 '11 at 14:50
Closing bracket added, and formOkay switched to formValue throughout. Also put it in CDATA tags, and still it does not give an alert when one of the fields is not filled in. — Steven Matthews, Dec 05 '11 at 14:52
content of elements... seems to have been a CDATA issue. Code still not working, however. — Steven Matthews, Dec 05 '11 at 14:52
javascript runtime or whatever that is running your javascript code has interpreted that — dani herrera, Dec 05 '11 at 14:56

score 12 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:08

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Does this piece of JavaScript happen to live in a <script> tag in an XHTML page? If so, move it to an external JS file, or use a CDATA section in the script tag.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:08

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answered Dec 05 '11 at 14:41

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