javascript - unterminated string literal

Question

The following code:

var str= "<strong>English Comprehension</strong>
                    <br/>
                    <ul>
                    <li>  Synonyms/Antonyms/Word Meaning (Vocabulary)</li>
                    <li>  Complete the Sentence (Grammar)</li>
                    <li>  Spot error/Correct sentence (Grammar/sentence construction)</li>
                    <li>  Sentence Ordering (Comprehension skills)</li>
                    <li>  Questions based on passage (Comprehension skills)</li>
                    </ul>
                    <br/>";

Gives the error: "unterminated string literal". Whats the problem?

Answer 1

You can't split a string across lines like that in javascript. You could accomplish the same readability by making each line a separate string and concatenating them with the plus sign like so:

var str = "<strong>English Comprehension</strong>"
    + "<br />"
    + "<ul>"
    + "<li>Synonyms/Antonyms/Word Meaning (Vocabulary)</li>"

and so on...