JavaScript, mulit-line document.write
I know that document.write(""); only takes one line of characters inthe quotes. Is there a way in javascript to open a "block" tag?
instead of having several document.write() lines,
have an opening document.write()
a bunch of lines of, say html
then a closing document.write()
I know that in Perl, for example, you can do this.
Let me know if I'm not explaining myself clearly.
Suzanne posted this at 20:36 — 20th February 2004.
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Not that I know of. If you need to write that much, perhaps it would be better to use something other than JavaScript to do it?
cat_mother_ posted this at 20:46 — 20th February 2004.
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The reason that I have to do it this way is a long story -- definitly not my choice of methods.
Thanks, though!
druagord posted this at 20:57 — 20th February 2004.
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by putting "\n" in your string it will give you a line return in source code. no there is no way in javascript to duplicate perl behavior. usualy i do it like this
<script>myvar = "<div>this is line 1 of some test text\n";
myvar+="this is still line 2</div>";
document.write(myvar);
</script>
IF , ELSE , WHILE isn't that what life is all about
cat_mother_ posted this at 21:14 — 20th February 2004.
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I'm asking if there's a way to include multiple lines of code inside document.write(). For example, say I have an html page. The coding of the html page is about 50 lines of code. I want all of this code inside the document.write() methods, whichout having to write document.write() 50 times.
Seems like there isn't a way to do that, but I thought that I'd ask!
druagord posted this at 21:28 — 20th February 2004.
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like i said you can but it will be on a terribly long line and it is not a good coding practice that's why i set a variable with all the text in it and write it after you could also read it from a text file and then write it to the document
IF , ELSE , WHILE isn't that what life is all about
cat_mother_ posted this at 21:38 — 20th February 2004.
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thanks for the info.
I'll give that a try.
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 22:14 — 20th February 2004.
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A tricky way to do it would be to store your code in another page element and access it via DOM. Perhaps use a hidden textarea (CSS) to contain your code block, and use document.getElementById("myhiddentextarea").value to grab the block.
I am assuming, of course, that your Javascript code is embedded in your page. And this is untested, but may be worth a shot if you have no alternatives.
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