Title: HTML comments inside script problem
Last modified: June 6, 2019

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# HTML comments inside script problem

 *  [felipon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/felipon/)
 * (@felipon)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-comments-inside-script-problem/)
 * The following code is from a theme I bought, which has a wrong html comment of
   the type <– –> inside a tag script:
 * <script>
    <!–pass images–> var theme_directory = “”; …rest of code </script>
 * chrome ignores this comment and does not report it as an error.
 * but when autoptimize removes the HTML comments within the <script></script> tags,
   the following error is generated:
 * Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
    <script> pass images–> var theme_directory
   = “”; …rest of code </script>
 * Is it correct, that autooptimize within the scope of a script removes code independent
   of whether it is badly coded? should not leave intact the code that goes inside
   the tag <script></script>, because that code is interpreted by the JS engine 
   and not by the explorer’s graphic part.
 * Thank you.

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 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-comments-inside-script-problem/#post-11613139)
 * It’s a known issue, afraid you’ll have to either remove the comment from the 
   theme’s JS or tick the “keep HTML comments” option for now.

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