No visible cause for “Unexpected token ILLEGAL”

Question

I\'m getting this JavaScript error on my console:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL

This is my code:

Answer 1

I am going to add one more answer to the pile. THis problem could happen also because of encoding. You want utf8 encoding to be on safe side. Some editors by default use utf16 which can cause issue. One quick way to test this, is, for example in VS code, simply recreate the same content but use the local editor of vscode to create the file. Hope this helps some.