Question

I’m trying to offer the user multi-line selectable text using a prompt() dialog. I will format the text in JavaScript, insert special characters and then throw up the prompt and all the user has to do is hit Ctrl-C, because the text is already selected.

When the prompt is displayed, the selectable text will look like this:

Line1□Line2□Line3□

where the □ is the newline character. It all gets displayed in one line, so it’s easily selectable, but pasting it into Notepad or any other text editor should result in this:

Line1
Line2
Line3

I tried \r and \n and even \r\n, but it seems to truncate it to the first line.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

You can use Ctrl + C (at least on windows) to copy the content of a dialog box (like alert() in JavaScript).