I have been using tabs in my JavaScript because that is the convention throughout the web application I am working on. The application includes PHP, ...
Having just gotten bitten by this and not realizing the implications, could we have the message: Missing radix parameter. changed to something more alarming...
I like to give my vars a value when I declare them, whenever that is possible. JsLint does not allow me to do that in one special case: function f(an_array) { ...
The experiment of using Yahoo Group's Database to manage JSLint configurations has not turned out well. So now I am going to try using Github's wiki. If you...
I have added an experimental context coloring feature to JSLint. It is intended to provide context coloring in text editors and IDEs. Context coloring gives a...
Well, today I'm not in good shape, and I expected the following code to output just one zero. The code passes JSLint. /*jslint devel: true */ (function () { ...
Hi, I have a question about Switch Case style as verified in jslint.A switch case written as below (case statement starting on the line after the switch...
I understand why the following code generates the warning "Unexpected 'typeof'. Use '===' to compare directly with undefined" var foo; if (typeof foo ===...
I need to support user-supplied math functions. Are there any good alternatives to using eval, or, more likely, the Function constructor? I could write js code...
Hi, My colleague was linting this and getting an error var a = /<.+>[^]<.+>/; Unescaped '^'. He argued that [^] was a valid succinct way of saying "any...
Unexpected '*'. Rationale for acceptance: The * selector in CSS, also known as the universal selector, is useful for setting styling to the full array of...
I’ve run into an error that is a bit strange to see. The <summary> tag is not allowed as it is unrecognized however the <details> tag is allowed. I’ve...
There appears to be a new rule that looks for unnecessary parenthesis, but this rule gets confused when wrapping regex: var mhtml = true, disqualify = (mhtml)...
Hi guys, I was coding and I noticed that I often make the same error from using reduce. e.g. var options = ['nocaps', 'evil', 'node', 'browser'], ...
The following code causes an error in internet explorer: var window; "SCRPT5039: Redeclaration of const property line 1 character 1" For us it would be useful...
Is there a way to get JSLint to recognize new tags via an option? I have a customer who can't make as good use of JSLint in CSE HTML Validator because it is...
While using jslint on some html with inline script, I run into the following error: A '<script>' must be within '< body div frame head iframe p pre span >'. ...
I get the error 'Node' was used before it was defined. From the line: if (nodes[i].nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE) { I do have the "Assume a browser" option on. I...
That code gives a strict violation (due to presence of `this`): function f() { 'use strict'; return this.x; } That code doesn't: var f = function () { 'use...
I have a statement in one of my functions: return serverInstanceId = response; JSLint flags it as: Expected ';' and instead saw '='. Unreachable '=' after...
If I need to create an array with a specified length, and the length is a literal, JSLint is happy enough with this: var arr = new Array(50); If, however, the...
I can understand how . and [^...] might be dangerous in a "match" regular expression, but in a replace I cannot see the harm in them. My typical example would...
On Mr Crockford's Remedial JavaScript page: http://javascript.crockford.com/remedial.html near the bottom, there is a little function called 'supplant' that ...
I expect jslint to accept the following two-line code snippet, but instead it gives the error "Unexpected '['". What am I doing wrong? ===JSLINT INPUT=== var a...
Whilst reviewing some code, I spotted an unnecessary use of call and it stood out to me as a good candidate for a warning. The following code demonstrates the...
Erik Meijer talking about the hazards and other interesting things. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Erik-Meijer-Functional-Programming-From-First-Principles...
