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Asked: 2026-05-11T21:13:43+00:00

How do I include a newline in an HTML tag attribute? For example: <a

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How do I include a newline in an HTML tag attribute?

For example:

<a href="somepage.html" onclick="javascript: foo('This is a multiline string.
This is the part after the newline.')">some link</a>

Edit: Sorry, bad example, what if the tag happened to not be in javascript, say:

<sometag someattr="This is a multiline string.
This is the part after the newline." />

Edit 2: Turns out the newline in the string wasn’t my problem, it was the javascript function I was calling. FWIW, “&#10;” can be used for newline in an HTML attribute.

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  1. Editorial Team

    From what I remember about the HTML standard, character entities work in attributes, so this might work:

    <sometag someattr="This is a multiline string.&#10;This is the part after the newline." />

    I’m not sure if the “newline” you want ought to be &#10; (\n) or &#13;&#10; (\r\n), and I’m not sure if browsers will interpret it the way you want.

    Why do you need it? What specific problem are you trying to solve by adding a newline in an HTML tag attribute?

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