36138 - Creating SCRIPT tag dynamically

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P3)

Description

[Sathish]

When i write Javascript to add the SCRIPT tag dinamically based some conditions, 
Netscape always returns errors.
For example if i say
if (SOMETHING)
document.write("<SCRIPT SRC=SOMETHING.JS></SCRIPT>");
else
document.write("<SCRIPT SRC=EVERYTHING.JS></SCRIPT>");
Netscape gives lot of syntax errors.

How can i achieve this?

Comment 1

[Richard Zach]

You have to escape the slash for the </SCRIPT> tag like so: <\/SCRIPT>.

There are several other bugs on this, most marked INVALID or WONTFIX.  Contents
of a SCRIPT tag is cdata which is ended by the next occurrence of </SCRIPT>,
whether or not it occurs in quotes.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Marking INVALID.

Gerv

Comment 3

[Jan Carpenter]

verified