285147 - Javascript parse error when using </script> tag within a literal string

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 32618

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[mlevine]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

If I use the </script> tag within a literal string (e.g. var new_html =
"<script>var i = 0;</script>"), I get the error "Error: unterminated string
literal" starting at "</script>". My only work around to this problem was to
place the JavaScript in an eval() function.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a script block within an HTML page using <script language="javascript"
type="text/javascript"></script>.
2. Within the script block add the following code:
var inner_html = '<script>alert("Testing parse error ...");</script>';
3. Load the HTML page in Firefox.
4. Open the JavaScript console to view the error.

Actual Results:  
Some JavaScript text was displayed in the browser window and received the
following error in the JavaScript console:

Error: unterminated string literal
Source File: file:///Users/marklevine/Desktop/test.html
Line: 6, Column: 19
Source Code:
var inner_html = '<script>alert("Testing parse error ...");

Expected Results:  
The string should have been parsed with no problems since it is just a string
literal.

Comment 1

[Erik Fabert]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32618 ***