Javascript closing tag is echoed twice from php

Question

<?php
     echo "<script type = 'text/javascript'></script>";
?>

output's page source shows this :

<script type = 'text/javascript'></script></script>

Why is it putting an extra closing tag ?? and who is putting it there ?? browser ? server ? who ?

Answer 1

Perhaps it's your browser's DOM parser that is putting the ending tag in. Have you checked the code above it to see if you have any unterminated <script> tags?

Answer 2

I don't think it is a PHP error. Did you verify that there is no closing script tag after the php block?

<?php
 echo "<script type = 'text/javascript'></script>";
?>
</script>