Encoding a line break in a string without using HTML

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allenylzhou picture allenylzhou · Jul 25, 2012 · Viewed 17.2k times · Source

Is there a way to encode a line break into a string without using any HTML entities or tags? Specifically, I would like a string that I pass into the dojox.gfx renderer to display a line break.

Answer

ckg picture ckg · Jul 25, 2012

You can escape it with \n or \u000A, see:

How do I break a string across more than one line of code in JavaScript?

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