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Special Characters in Javascript

Javascript allows you to use special characters such as quotes, apostrophes and new lines to a text string by using the backslash (\) sign.

In JavaScript, a string is started and stopped with either single quotes or double quotes. This causes the javascript below to only display: "And he started with "

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
var txt="And he started with "only time will tell" to begin his speech.";
document.write(txt);
</script>

Javascript allows you to display a special character, in this case the double-quote ("), as part of the text string by placing a backslash (\) in front of the special character.

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
var txt="And he started with \"only time will tell\" to begin his speech.";
document.write(txt);
</script>

The javascript code above display the entire text.

The table below lists The table below lists other special characters that can be added to a text string by using the backslash sign.

character	outputs
'	single quote
"	double quote
&	ampersand
\	backslash
n	new line
r	carriage return
t	tab
b	backspace
f	form feed