Re: block writing

hendedav@xxxxxxxxx writes:

Joost,
I tried, as you suggested, and it didn't work as I thought. The
below is the code:

var element = document.getElementById("divTFooter");
element.appendChild(document.createTextNode("this is an example of a
link: <a href="test.html">link</a>"));

and I got a "missing ) after argument list" error after the quote
right before the test.html name. I will need to find something that
doesn't have quotes as the delimiters. Thanks though, any other
ideas?

Oh right. You mean you have to escape the quotes inside a quoted
string. There's no way around that if you use string literals.

It's annoying, of course, but I don't really see that there is a
problem. You generally don't put large sections of text in string
literals, and if you really want to you can easily write a short script
that generates the string literal for you:

$ perl -e '$_=join("",<>);s/\n/\\n/g;s/"/\\"/g;print qq("$_")' my.html



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