HTML script Tag

The HTML script tag is used for declaring a script (such as JavaScript) within your HTML document.

Also see the HTML noscript tag for providing content to browsers that don't support your scripting language.

Example


<script type="text/javascript">
  document.write('The HTML Script tag allows you to place a
                    script within your HTML documents');
</script>

Attributes:

Attributes specific to this tag:
Attribute	Description
name	Defines the name of the parameter.
src	Specifies a URI/URL of an external script.
type	Specifies the scripting language as a content-type (MIME type).
language	Specifies the scripting language, however, this attribute has been deprecated. Use the `type` attribute instead.
defer	Declares that the script will not generate any content. Therefore, the browser/user agent can continue parsing and rendering the rest of the page.
Other Attributes:
Attribute	Description
charset	Defines the character encoding that the script uses.

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