Question

I tried making a web page by writing

document.write("This is the first line \n And this is the second");

The desired effect is:

This is the first line
And this is the second

But I get this:

This is the first line And this is the second

I tried writing <br> inside and it worked. But Why writing an escape \n didn’t? Anything I am doing wrong? I am using Firefox.

Answer 1

You are not doing anything wrong. Its just the \n character is valid in text related elements like, alert() and <textarea>.

The document.write() command writes to the body of the site or the display (in the HTML). Substitute <br> in place of the \n here since you are writing HTML in the page