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...