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Asked: 2026-05-27T07:36:41+00:00

I’m trying to use a back slash in console.log() and within <p></p> but it

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I’m trying to use a back slash in console.log() and within <p></p> but it seems that when the page loads, all back slashes are removed.

Example JS

console.log('\m/ Lets rock. \m/');

Result

m/ Lets rock. m/

How can I prevent it from being removed?

EDIT: Backslash not forward slash. Running this on node.js with express, within the <head> tags of layout.jade. Backslash visible in REPL, but not when running on node in the web browser (Chrome & Firefox).

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  1. Editorial Team

    If m/ Lets rock. m/ is your result, I see forward slashes.

    If you mean backslashes, escape them to show that the string wants a literal backslash:

    console.log('\\m/ Lets rock. \\m/');

    Otherwise, JavaScript interprets this as a \m EscapeSequence. That’s why you need the \\ EscapeSequence.

    The solution was that the backslashes needed to be double escaped:

    console.log('\\\\m/ Lets rock. \\\\m/');

    …apparently the backslashes are processed as escaped characters twice (once in the initial string creation, then again for some other purpose).

    So the string creation gives us:

    '\\m/ Lets rock. \\m/'

    …then the subsequent processing results in:

    '\m/ Lets rock. \m/'
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