minify-html/notes/Script data.md

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# Script data
## Summary
For legacy reasons, HTML comments can appear within a script tag, and if there is a `<script` in it, the first following `</script>` within the comment does **not** close the main script tag.
minify-html does **not** do this special handling, as it adds complexity and slows down performance dramatically, for a legacy feature that is not recommended to be (and almost never) used.
See https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/syntax.html#script-data-state for more details.
Commit [20c59769](https://github.com/wilsonzlin/minify-html/commit/20c59769fea6bfb8a9d5ecea47d979dc9b1dcda5) removed support.
## States and transitions
|State|`<script`|`</script`|`<!--`|`-->`|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Normal|-|End|Escaped|-|
|Escaped|DoubleEscaped|End|-|Normal|
|DoubleEscaped|-|Escaped|-|Normal|
## Examples
```html
<script type="text/html">
<script>
exec1 = true;
</script>
<script>
exec2 = true;
</script>
</script>
```
These are true about the above snippet:
- `document.querySelectorAll('script').length === 2`.
- `!window.exec1 && window.exec2`.
- `document.querySelector('script[type="text/html"]')` has exactly one child node and it's a text node.
If there is one or more `<script>` inside an HTML comment before any `</script>`, the first `</script>` will not end the main script.
Ending tag inside comment works because there are no nested script tags.
```html
<script type="text/plain"><!--
</script>
```
There is a nested tag but it doesn't need to be closed because it's treated as text.
```html
<script type="text/plain">
<script>
</script>
```
There is a nested tag but it doesn't need to be closed because it's not inside an HTML comment.
```html
<script type="text/plain">
<script><!--
</script>
```
There is a nested tag but it doesn't need to be closed because main closing tag is not inside an HTML comment.
```html
<script type="text/plain"><!--
<script>-->
</script>
```
The main closing tag is in a HTML comment but still works because there is no `<script>` before it in its comment (there is one in the previous comment).
```html
<script type="text/plain">
<!--<script>--><!--
</script>
```
There is a nested tag and it's in an HTML comment but it doesn't need to be closed because it's not `script`.
```html
<script type="text/plain"><!--
<div>
</script>
```
First closing tag is inside a comment with one or more previous opening tags so it doesn't close main script tag.
```html
<script type="text/plain"><!--
<script>alert();</script>
</script>
```
There is a nested tag and it needs to be closed because it's in a comment `script`. The amount of `<script>` doesn't matter.
```html
<script type="text/plain"><!--
<script><script><script><script><script>alert();</script>
</script>
```
First and second closing tags close their respective previous 1+ opening tags.
```html
<script type="text/plain"><!--
<script><script><script>alert();</script>
<script></script>
</script>
```
Main closing tag works because it is in a separate comment.
```html
<script type="text/plain">
<!--<script><script><script>--><!--
</script>
```
Main closing tag works because it is not in a comment.
```html
<script type="text/plain">
<!--<script>-->
</script>
```