JavaScript: The Good Parts

HTML

JSLint is able to handle HTML text. It can inspect the JavaScript content contained within <script>...</script> tags and event handlers. It also inspects the HTML content, looking for problems that are known to interfere with JavaScript:

• All tag names must be in lowercase.

• All tags that can take a close tag (such as </p>) must have a close tag.

• All tags are correctly nested.

• The entity < must be used for literal <.

JSLint is less anal than the sycophantic conformity demanded by XHTML, but more strict than the popular browsers.

JSLint also checks for the occurrence of </ in string literals. You should always write <\/ instead. The extra backslash is ignored by the JavaScript compiler, but not by the HTML parser. Tricks like this should not be necessary, and yet they are.

There is an option that allows use of uppercase tag names. There is also an option that allows the use of inline HTML event handlers.