String "</script>" causing error [duplicate]

Question

I can't figure out why the string "</script>" is giving me the following error:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token

I only see the error when I declare the variable inline HTML. If I declare the variable in the console it doesn't give me any trouble.

I also noticed that "</scrip>" and other letter combinations do not give the error. Is there something special about that string that is causing this? I'm stumped.

<script>
  var thing = "</script>";
</script>

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:16:30Z

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The solution was actually just to escape the slash:

var thing = "<\/script>";

Explanation here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1479554/3498950

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:16

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