[Javascript] String on multiple lines

[Paul Novitski]

At 03:45 PM 6/19/2006, Paul Novitski wrote:
>I'd try escaping the PHP line breaks, replacing \n with \\n, so that 
>they output into your HTML (JavaScript) source as the literal string 
>"\n" instead of the line-break character.
>
>         var variable = "<?php echo str_replace("\n", "\\n", $variable); ?>";


Oops, I meant:

         var variable = "<?php echo str_replace("\\n", "\\\\n", 
$variable); ?>";

Any case in which you're referring to the backslash character, and 
not its effect on the subsequent character, it needs to be escaped 
with a second backslash.

Paul