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Gurus,
I am self taught. There's a lot of what you enlightened ones call basic I know nothing about.
Reading this jQuery Tutorial, I noticed this tag (for lack of better word): "CDATA" as shown here (third line from the top):
<script src="http://jquery.com/src/jquery-latest.js"></script>
<script>
//<![CDATA[
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".article .thebody").hide();
$("#container .article ul")
.prepend("<li class='readbody'><a href='' title='Read the article'>Read Body</a></li>");
$(".actions li.readbody a").click(function(event){
$(this).parents("ul").prev(".thebody").toggle();
event.preventDefault();
});
});
//]]></script>
What is the meaning of CDATA? Are there tags similar to CDATA?
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By using CDATA section, you are commanding the parser that the particular section of the document contains no markup and should be treated as regular text.
You should almost never need to use CDATA Sections. The CDATA mechanism was designed to let an author quote fragments of text containing markup characters (the open-angle-bracket and the ampersand), for example when documenting XML (this FAQ uses CDATA Sections quite a lot, for obvious reasons).
You declare a CDATA section using <! [CDATA[ as the opening tag, and ]]> as the closing tag.
CDATA sections are used to escape blocks of text containing characters that would otherwise be regarded as markup. The only delimiter that is recognized in a CDATA section is the "]]>" string that ends the CDATA section. CDATA sections cannot be nested.
With <
