“<" Breaks highlighting

I’m finding that using a “less than” character (<) within [javascript][/javascript] breaks the highlighting. If there’s a “greater than” character (>) anywhere AFTER the <, the javascript renders perfectly.

I’m able to correct the issue for now by adding a comment with a “>” at the end of my code snippet to close the “<“.
// >

Obviously this is not ideal. Can this be corrected?