Definition and Usage

The type attribute specifies the Internet media type (formerly known as MIME type) of a script.

The type attribute identifies the content between the <script> and </script> tags.

The media type consists of two parts: one media type and one subtype. For JavaScript, the media type is “text/javascript”.This attribute identifies the scripting language of code embedded within a script element or referenced via the element’s src attribute. This is specified as a MIME type; examples of supported MIME types include text/javascript, text/ecmascript, application/javascript, and application/ecmascript. If this attribute is absent, the script is treated as JavaScript.If the MIME type specified is not a JavaScript type the content embedded within its tags is treated as a data block which won’t be processed by the browser.

Attribute Values