Break line in string

[tvcrawley]

Hi!

So I tried using \n, break line command, backslash, and concat. I also went to Joe for help and he couldn't figure it out either.

I expected the text beginning with \" to be displayed on the next line.

This happens:

• \n: gives a space
• break line command: either does nothing and makes the desired text overflow to the next line OR it does its intended function while also printing itself to the screen
• backslash: does nothing
• concat: in combination with the above either does nothing, breaks the code, or does something that was outlined above

The link to my repo is https://github.com/Chibiania/game-lab/blob/master/script.js my question is about line 4.

[jshawl]

what if you replace textContent with innerHTML https://github.com/Chibiania/game-lab/blob/168741baeec88ebb25bd1d350be8b66382808f3a/script.js#L78

[RobertAKARobin]

Try \\n.

What's going on here is Javascript is trying to "escape" the characters -- for example, turn < into <.

[tvcrawley]

• "<br />" ---> switched to the default br line
• \n ---> same result as \n (only gives me a space)

*I changed textcontent to innerhtml but there is no difference

[tvcrawley]

Just got help from Matt.

The answer was +"
"+ with the innerhtml