Does anyone know why <script src="scriptsource.js" /> doesn't work [duplicate]

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Why don't self-closing script tags work?

I've no开发者_如何学Pythonticed that you can't slash-terminate a script tag when you specify a "src" and therefore don't require anything between the <script> and the </script>. This is the only tag I know of where you can't do that.

For example, this works:

<script type="text/javascript" src="scriptsource.js"></script>

and this doesn't

<script type="text/javascript" src="scriptsource.js" />

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Because the script requires an end tag:

Start tag: required, End tag: required

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/scripts.html

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Here's your answer: Why don't self-closing script tags work?

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Is it because you have to have a closing tag?

<script type="text/javascript" src="scriptsource.js"></script>