Code Luck

I recently ran into an issue with JavaScript where the script tag was ended with

Please overlook the missing "<" at the start of the script tags, since blogger understandingly has issues with script tags.

script src="../jscalender-1.0/calender.js" />
script src="../jscalender-1.0/calender/look.js" />
script src="../jscalender-1.0/calender/feel.js" />
script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function showCalender()
{
}
/script>

In spite of the rendered page containing the above script blocks, the showCalender function was not found and I kept getting a runtime javascript error: Object not found.

IE provided no clues about what is happening, finally when I looked at the source in Firefox with the color scheme, it dawned upon me that only the first script tag is being recognized while the rest are being ignored.

When I changed them to:

script src="../jscalender-1.0/calender.js"> /script>
script src="../jscalender-1.0/calender/look.js" > /script>
script src="../jscalender-1.0/calender/feel.js" > /script>
script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function showCalender()
{
}
/script>

So the moral is, close the JavaScript tags with /script> even though the /> might work in certain cases, it baffles you in cases like this.