$('<tag />') breaks my highlighting

Question

But

$('<tag></tag>')

doesn't.

The problem seems to come with the '/>' thing.

This is happening in gedit, aptana and scribes.

Answer 1

My flavor of Vim happens to handle self-closing tags. In general, editor syntax highlighters use lexical rules, not semantic ones to figure out how to colorize. Since (X|HT)ML is not a regular language, it is pretty easy to fool them.

Indeed for just about any language, it is possible to generate a construction that will fool the highlighter. You may be able to find improved highlighters for <your preferred editor/> or you may just have to choose between "fast and mistaken" or "slow and precise"

Answer 2

Try

$("<tag />")

and see if that breaks highlighting too.