[jQuery] Re: multiline string

[Klaus Hartl]

james_027 wrote:
hi,
I am trying to use the jQuery .after() function. I have something like
this ..

$('p').after('<p class="main"><a href="#">sample</a></p>');

I want to transform it into something like this to make the code much
easier to read

$('p').after('
    <p class="main">
        <a href="#">sample</a>
    </p>
');

how can I achieve this?

Thanks
james

The + operator does string concatenation in JavScript:

$('p').after(
    '<p class="main">' +
        '<a href="#">sample</a>' +
    '</p>'
);

Turned out that this is a little slow thus I tend to use a array.join() 
if the string gets longer, which is known to be faster:

$('p').after([
    '<p class="main">',
        '<a href="#">sample</a>',
    '</p>'
].join(''));


--Klaus