Abhishek Reddy — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 22:14:43 +0000

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.

I see what you're saying

cat_mother_ — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:38:47 +0000

thanks for the info.

I'll give that a try.

druagord — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:28:47 +0000

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

Not trying to duplicate Perl behavior, per se

cat_mother_ — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:14:35 +0000

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 — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:57:15 +0000

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

&lt;script&gt;
myvar = "<div>this is line 1 of some test text\n";
myvar+="this is still line 2</div>";
document.write(myvar);
&lt;/script&gt;

Re:

cat_mother_ — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:46:07 +0000

The reason that I have to do it this way is a long story -- definitly not my choice of methods.

Thanks, though!

Suzanne — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:36:09 +0000

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?