Multiline Alert Box!! Error pls Help 1

[Forri]

Hi All

I need to show a multiline alert box but it keeps on giving me an error. The following is what i'm doing:

 alert ("Hello \n World");

The browser keeps giving the following error:

Unterminated String Constant

Any ideas pls?

Thanks
Nick

 

[theboyhope]

There's nothing wrong with that line. Looks like your error must be somewhere else, mate.

 

[Forri]

But if i remove the "\n" it works! obviously it doesn't skip a line!

Nick

 

[theboyhope]

In that case, what browser are you testing this in?

If you put the following in a page by itself do you get an 'Unterminated String Constant' error?

<script type="text/javascript">
alert ("Hello\nWorld");
</script>

 

[Forri]

#$@%@^%$@ !! it works!!

yes it does work alone! i'm trying to print it from a PHP script!

Do you have any idea how i can do this!

Thanks
Nick

 

[theboyhope]

Something like this, probably:

<?php

echo '<script type="text/javascript">';
echo 'alert("hello\nworld");';
echo '</script>';

?>

 

[Forri]

Oh thanks theboyhope!

forgot about the ' i usually use " !! Cheers!

Star for you!!

Thanks once again
Nick

 

[trollacious]

It looks like PHP was literally putting a new line in the alert, like:

alert("Hello
World");

 

[theboyhope]

Yep - it'll parse the \n if you have it inside double quotes.