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Sometimes we need to hide the JavaScript code from the old browsers that do not support it.

To prevent old browsers from displaying your JS code, do the following:

 

Immediately after the opening <script> tag, put a one-line HTML-style comment without the closing characters, so that the first two lines of your script would look like this:

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
 
At the end of your script, put the following two lines:
//-->
</script>
 

Thus, your HTML file will contain the following fragment:

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--

    Put your JS code here. Old

    browsers will treat it as regular

    HTML comment.
//-->
</script>

 

 

Old browsers will treat your JavaScript code as one long HTML comment. On the other hand, new JavaScript-aware browsers will normally interpret the code between the tags <script> and </script> (the first and last lines of the code will be treated by the JavaScript interpreter as one-line comments).

Embedding JavaScript in HTML

About the Author

Iana Tsolova

is Product Manager at Telerik’s DevTools division. She joined the company back in the beginning of 2008 as a Support Officer and has since occupied various positions at Telerik, including Senior Support Officer, Team Lead at one of the ASP.NET AJAX teams and Technical Support Director. Iana’s main interests are web development, reading articles related to geography, wild nature and latest renewable energy technologies.

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