Hoping someone's come across this before. I'm trying to get some javascript added to a phtml file in Magento 2, but instead of interpreting it as javascript it seems to be outputting it as plain text.
Initially I tried to get it working by using the usual javascript tags in the template file
<script type="text/javascript">
$("#countdown-before")
.countdown("<?php echo $this->start;?>", function(event){
$(this).text("<?php echo $this->beforeMessage;?>" + event.strftime('%H:%M:%S'));
})
</script>
When this output straight to the page I did some research and tried formatting it using reactjs, but had the same problem (not parsing the script tag and instead outputting as text)
<script>// <![CDATA[
require([
'jquery'
], function ($) {
console.log('hello world');
});
// ]]>
</script>
Is there something I'm missing which is needed with Magento 2 in order to include javascript directly in the template page?
Thanks in advance
edit: Couple of extra details I realised might affect this. The issue is happening on an Enterprise Edition installation and the template file this is stored in is loaded via a widget. Don't know if maybe there's some sanitisation being applied because it's a widget and that's maybe what's breaking it
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