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PortSwigger Research
August 25th, 2026 at 2:24 PM

What's in a tag name? JavaScript, apparently

I was on my laptop, as I often am when there's rubbish on telly, and found myself wondering what characters are allowed in a tag. I knew they had to begin with "a-zA-Z", but what about after that? I t

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