Javascript embedded in html and greater / less than signs

Question

Long time ago I faced a problem with embedding too much JavaScript inside the html page in <script> tags. The JavaScript had lots of < and > signs and it was somehow conflicting with the actual page html tags.

I am now unable to recreate this. How can this possibly happen? Or are the browsers now a bit more intelligent in handling embedded JavasSript?

Answer 1

I just came across this issue, however, not in a browser , but in an IDE - JBoss Developer Studio (which is a variant of Eclipse IDE)

When i run the application in the browser (its a Java Enterprise application, running on JBoss web server), i get the same error as in the IDE : The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup. While modern browsers have solved this issue, embedding javascript code in a JSF page (Java Server Faces) , as i did, still hits the same problem. Perhaps you might want to give it a try: create a simple JSF application, embed the javascript, run it on a Java web server like JBoss