ASP May Misinterpret Extra or Missing Delimiters as HTML

ID: Q195243

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Internet Information Server versions 3.0, 4.0

SUMMARY

ASP may misinterpret extra or missing delimiters as HTML. ASP does not interpret HTML.

MORE INFORMATION

You should check for extra or missing delimiters if you receive unusual output. A missing delimiter may be misinterpreted as HTML. For example, the following script would be interpreted as HTML:


   <TABLE WIDTH=100%>

Note that the familiar ASP delimiter is contained within this statement ('%>').

An extra delimiter may also be misinterpreted by ASP. For example:


   <%SCRIPT LANGUAGE = "VBScript"%> %>

ASP interprets the above line as "SCRIPT LANGUAGE = "VBSCRIPT"%>" because that is what is between the delimiters.

Keywords : prodNT4OP
Version : WINNT:3.0,4.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbinfo