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JavaScript Introducing JavaScript Let's Make a Game Welcome to Web Programming

Posted by Troy Anderson
Troy Anderson
647 Points

You've seen a bit of JavaScript programming already. Can you pick out the example below which is NOT JavaScript?

I think this is a trick question to see if I'm paying attention to details about JavaScript but if not I think all of A, B ,C are all related to Javascript

Tim Strand
Tim Strand
22,458 Points
Tim Strand
Tim Strand
22,458 Points

Related perhaps. But which one if you put it in a .js file would result in invalid code? 1 answer is valid HTML and 2 are valid JS

1 Answer

Hakim Rachidi
Hakim Rachidi
38,490 Points
Hakim Rachidi
Hakim Rachidi
38,490 Points

The script tags are part of the markup. You could wrap this in a string and it could be JS but in this case (without any quotes) this is not a string literal.

  • These angle brackets are not part of the JS syntax.
  • They are not wrapped into quotation marks to form a string