Javascrip <br/> equivilent

Hi All,
I am a COMPLETE newbie to javascript… actually i dont really know the first thing about it yet but i have a div on a site that uses javascript to fade in and out text.

All i want to do is but a line break / return in the text.

Im sure this has been asked before but i couldnt find anything accept for one guy suggesting using ‘/n’ but that didnt work.

Here’s the script:

arrFadeTitles[0] = "A line of text here. PAGE BREAK HERE. More text here";

Thanks in advance.

Any white-space character, including line break, renders as a regular space (U+0020) in HTML. Furthermore, multiple adjacent spaces collapse into one.

You can use a <br> element as Paul says, or you can use CSS to specify that white-space be rendered literally (e.g., white-space&#58;pre).

Hi Everyone,

Yeah thats what i thought it was (i just wrote the backslash wrong in the post oops!) but its not working…
Any ideas why?

Heres the whole script:

function setupFadeLinks() {
  //add as many as you want 
  //the links are the arrFadeLinks
  arrFadeLinks[0] = "http://javascriptsource.com/snippets/popup-blocker-detection.html";
  //the title are the arrFadeTitles
  arrFadeTitles[0] = "A line of text here.\
This should be a new line";
  arrFadeLinks[1] = "what.php";
  arrFadeTitles[1] = "A line of text here.\
More text here";
  arrFadeLinks[2] = "what.php";
  arrFadeTitles[2] = "A line of text here.\
This should be a new line";
  arrFadeLinks[3] = "what.php";
  arrFadeTitles[3] = "A line of text here.\
More text here";
  arrFadeLinks[4] = "what.php";
  arrFadeTitles[4] = "5. insertAfter()";
  arrFadeLinks[5] = "what.php";
  arrFadeTitles[5] = "6. insertAfter()";
  arrFadeLinks[6] = "what.php";
  arrFadeTitles[6] = "7. insertAfter()";
  
}

// You can also play with these variables to control fade speed, fade color, and how fast the colors jump.

//fade out
var m_FadeOut = 200;
//try and leave this 1 under 50
var m_FadeIn=50;
//dont no yet lol
var m_Fade = 0;
//dont yet lol but it changes some thing lol
var m_FadeStep = 10;
//fade wait
var m_FadeWait = 1600;
var m_bFadeOut = true;

var m_iFadeInterval;

window.onload = Fadewl;

var arrFadeLinks;
var arrFadeTitles;
var arrFadeCursor = 0;
var arrFadeMax;

function Fadewl() {
  m_iFadeInterval = setInterval(fade_ontimer, 10);
  arrFadeLinks = new Array();
  arrFadeTitles = new Array();
  setupFadeLinks();
  arrFadeMax = arrFadeLinks.length-1;
  setFadeLink();
}

function setFadeLink() {
  var ilink = document.getElementById("fade_link");
  ilink.innerHTML = arrFadeTitles[arrFadeCursor];
  ilink.href = arrFadeLinks[arrFadeCursor];
}

function fade_ontimer() {
  if (m_bFadeOut) {
    m_Fade+=m_FadeStep;
    if (m_Fade>m_FadeOut) {
      arrFadeCursor++;
      if (arrFadeCursor>arrFadeMax)
        arrFadeCursor=0;
      setFadeLink();
      m_bFadeOut = false;
    }
  } else {
    m_Fade-=m_FadeStep;
    if (m_Fade<m_FadeIn) {
      clearInterval(m_iFadeInterval);
      setTimeout(Faderesume, m_FadeWait);
      m_bFadeOut=true;
    }
  }
  var ilink = document.getElementById("fade_link");
  if ((m_Fade<m_FadeOut)&&(m_Fade>m_FadeIn))
    ilink.style.color = "#" + ToHex(m_Fade);
}

function Faderesume() {
  m_iFadeInterval = setInterval(fade_ontimer, 10);
}

function ToHex(strValue) {
  try {
    var result= (parseInt(strValue).toString(16));

    while (result.length !=2)
            result= ("0" +result);
    result = result + result + result;
    return result.toUpperCase();
  }
  catch(e)
  {
  }
}

Cheers!

If you look at the source code you will find that
is working.

If you want the break to appear on the rendered HTML code, you will need to use <br> to affect the on-page display of the text.

O.o, **** that’s embarrassing

A line break in JavaScript is "\ " (note the backslash).

arrFadeTitles[0] = "A line of text here.\
More text here";

You are confusing JavaScript and PHP.

In JavaScript either "
" or ’
’ is a linefeed whereas in PHP you can only use "
".

Just to add onto [COLOR=#663300][B][I]AutisticCuckoo[/I][/B][/COLOR]'s post but you should also note
only works when the string is encased with double quotes "
"