JavaScript src with empty tag works, with empty end doesn't [duplicate]

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Why don't self-closing script tags work?

I am using Spring web-mvc with F开发者_开发百科reemarker and JQuery. The following works fine (layout, positioning etc):

<script type="text/javascript" src="<@spring.url 'jquery.ui.core.js'/>"></script>

But this doesn't:

<script type="text/javascript" src="<@spring.url 'jquery.ui.core.js'/>"/>

What's going wrong?

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Nothing is wrong, script tags just require the closing tags, they can't be self closed.

More discussion about it available on this thread: Why don't self-closing script tags work?

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You can't close a script tag using '/>' you have to use the explicit '</script>' closing tag.