Creating multiline strings in JavaScript

Question

I have the following code in Ruby. I want to convert this code into JavaScript. What is the equivalent code in JS?

text = <<"HERE" This Is A Multiline String HERE 

Answer 1

Update:

ECMAScript 6 (ES6) introduces a new type of literal, namely template literals. They have many features, variable interpolation among others, but most importantly for this question, they can be multiline.

A template literal is delimited by backticks:

var html = `   <div>     <span>Some HTML here</span>   </div> `; 

(Note: I'm not advocating to use HTML in strings)

Browser support is OK, but you can use transpilers to be more compatible.

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Original ES5 answer:

Javascript doesn't have a here-document syntax. You can escape the literal newline, however, which comes close:

"foo \ bar"