Could not find matching close tag for “<%”, how can I fix that?

Question

This is the problematic part:

<% for(var j = 0;j < <%= items %>.length; j++){ %>
<li><%= items[j] %></li>
<%}%>

Answer 1

It's really hard to tell what you are trying to do here, but the root cause is that you cannot nest sets of <%... %> .

Probably you just want:

<% for (var j=0; j < items.length; j++) { %>
    <li><%= items[j] %></li>
<% } %>

Possibly you expect items to be provided by client-side JavaScript and not EJS, in which case see What is the difference between client-side and server-side programming?

Answer 2

Please correct your code as below, you don't need to use the <%= %> with items.

<% for(var j = 0;j < items.length; j++){ %>
   <li><%= items[j] %></li>
<%}%>

Answer 3

I think the reason for this could be that you have inserted the "<%" tag inside another one.

Can you please try to rewrite the code like this?

<% for(var j = 0;j < items.length; j++){ %>
<li><%= items[j] %></li>
<%}%>