uncaught syntax error: Unexpected token

[hralston]

I have a script that will work fine in Firefox but not Chrome, Opera, Microsoft Explorer.The console has this in Chrome-uncaught syntax error: Unexpected token < It is in the page-http://www.ralstongenealogy.com/visitor.htm This is the script- /* <![CDATA[*/document.writeln(<div id="page-footer"> <a href="#top"><img src="uparrow.gif" alt="To top of page" /></a> <a href="index.htm"><img src= "homarrow.gif" border="1" width="72" height="28" alt="To Home Page" /></a> © 2012 Harold A. Ralston, Racine, Wisconsin, USA.<br /> Design and material may be copied with web page author's permission. <a href="visitor.htm"><img src="letter.gif" alt="e-mail" width="35" height="24" />E Mail</a> <a href="http://www.chami.com/html-kit/"><img src= "hkbutton.gif" width="93" height="30" alt="HTML-Kit Button" title="Built using HTML-Kit" border="0" /></a></div> ); dayName=new Array ("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday") monName =new Array ("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December") now=new Date document.write ( dayName[now.getDay()] +", "+monName[now.getMonth()] + " "+now.getDate()+", "+now.getFullYear()+". <br>" ); /*]]> */

[justsomeguy]

It's not necessary to have the cdata comments there, but that's not going to break anything. The document.writeln method takes a string as an argument, which means it needs to be quoted. You can use either single quotes or double quotes to quote a string, so since you're already using a lot of double quotes it's probably easier to surround the string with single quotes. You also need to add a "\" character at the end of each line inside the string. e.g.:

document.writeln('<div id="page-footer">\ <a href="#top"><img src="uparrow.gif"\...');

The error message is complaining about the first "<" in the HTML markup that isn't quoted.