Thank you. Your explanation makes a lot of sense.

>Probably because the containing file needs to be in HTML format. "Packaging" the client-side script in a HTML comment makes the required parser simpler as it doesn't have to "know" anything specific about the scripting language to parse (i.e. it only needs to know HTML format -- any "foreign" stuff would be packaged as a comment). Once the parsing of the file into respective elements is performed, the script portion could then be passed to the proper scripting agent.
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Why is Javascript generated by ASP.NET - at run-time - commented with

<!--  -->

?
>>
>>For example, I see the following View Page Source:
>>
>>

>><script type="text/javascript">
>><!--
>>
>>var Page_ValidationActive = false;
>>if (typeof(ValidatorOnLoad) == "function") {
>>    ValidatorOnLoad();
>>}
>>
>>function ValidatorOnSubmit() {
>>    if (Page_ValidationActive) {
>>        return ValidatorCommonOnSubmit();
>>    }
>>    else {
>>        return true;
>>    }
>>}
>>        // -->
>></script>
>>