I have the following code in Ruby. I want to convert this code into JavaScript. What is the equivalent code in JS?
text = <<"HERE"
This
Is
A
Multiline
String
HERE
43 Answers
Update:
ECMAScript 6 (ES6) introduces a new type of literal, namely template literals. They have many features, variable interpolation among others, but most importantly for this question, they can be multiline.
A template literal is delimited by backticks:
var html = `
<div>
<span>Some HTML here</span>
</div>
`;
(Note: I'm not advocating to use HTML in strings)
Browser support is OK, but you can use transpilers to be more compatible.
Original ES5 answer:
Javascript doesn't have a here-document syntax. You can escape the literal newline, however, which comes close:
"foo \
bar"
ES6 Update:
As the first answer mentions, with ES6/Babel, you can now create multi-line strings simply by using backticks:
const htmlString = `Say hello to
multi-line
strings!`;
Interpolating variables is a popular new feature that comes with back-tick delimited strings:
const htmlString = `${user.name} liked your post about strings`;
This just transpiles down to concatenation:
user.name + ' liked your post about strings'
