Executing [removed] injected by innerHTML after AJAX call

Question

There\'s a div called \"Content\":

It should be filled with data from a PHP file, by AJAX, including

Answer 1

If you are injecting something that needs the script tag, you may get an uncaught syntax error and say illegal token. To avoid this, be sure to escape the forward slashes in your closing script tag(s). ie;

var output += '<\/script>';

Same goes for any closing tags, such as a form tag.