Nothing much to do with

webwiz — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:14:20 +0000

Nothing much to do with JavaScript-- we're talking basic XHTML markup here.
Not that it matters much, since I suspect that every browser on earth treats your pages as HTML, not XHTML.

Of course, if you did send your pages as XHTML, then HTML comments are a good way of hiding the script altogether...

Well, I'm really not clued

greg — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:55:13 +0000

Well, I'm really not clued up with JS, so I didn't know about that. Will look into that too, cheers.

But as it happens, commenting out the JS allowed it to validate to XHTML Strict and still function correctly in 3 major browsers.

You'd use a !CDATA section

webwiz — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:01:50 +0000

You'd use a !CDATA section for XHTML though. (But you knew that...)
http://www.w3schools.com/xmL/xml_cdata.asp

Ahh, cheers matt. The

greg — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:45:36 +0000

Ahh, cheers matt.

The commenting out worked.
I guess it should be done regardless of valid purposes if it prevents potential issues.

I always use
teammatt3 — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:23:00 +0000

I always use
`<script type="text/javascript">...`
There's nothing wrong with that.

The proper way of doing things is putting your JS in a file and including it in your document:

`<script type="text/javascript" src="/path/to/js.js"></script>`

Another thing I've seen done is something like this

`<script type="text/javascript">  </script>`

Comment out your JS with HTML comments (to get through the validator, and prevent non-JS users from experiencing weird stuff).