@Adam Kahtava: True. I see many people skip it altogether.

But, W3c lists it as a required attribute so if you skip it, your code may no longer validate.

But most browsers choose JavaScript by default. It doesn’t really matter what your type attribute contains – unless you’re using vbscript.

[quote post=”2641″]Ever wonder why we even need a type attribute in the script tag?[/quote]

Well, it’s there to specify the MIME type of the script you are importing/embedding. Naturally as it goes with stuff like that, there is an intense flame war about whether you should use text/javascript or application/javascript. :P

Oh, and you can use the script tag to embed client side vbscript in which case you’d use text/vbscript although I haven’t really seen that being done much these days.

John is the man! jQuery is efff’n awesome!

Ever wonder why we even need a type attribute in the script tag?