supercala

Posted: **Fri Oct 22, 2010 12:16 pm**

javascript breaks strings of text and considers the next line a line of code to interpret, this allows for single line execution after if statements:

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if(a==b)
     document.write("correct answer!")

instead of a more easily flow read like this (and a semicolon at the end to declare the end of a statement)

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if(a==b)
     {
     document.write("i am easy to read");
     }

beyond that, to get a lot of text to behave as if it were formatted as a long html or php string in javascript, this will not work:

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var str="
<html>
<body>
testing123
</body>
</html>
";

but this will by escaping and marking (\) the newlines to collate or combine in javascript:
*even the first empty line if existant

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var str="\
<html>\
<body>
testing123\
<\body>\
<\html>\
";

you may find this useful for template design and quick html to javascript creation of inline scripting. quick. fast. easy.

but not made for use all of the time and to be lazy.

supercala

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