confirmation box question

[Martin Herrman]

Hi all,

i'm quite new to javascript and can't find the answer on the net, but
sorry if i'm going to ask a stupid question :-)

I am programming in PHP. The PHP code makes a message which I want to show
in a confirmation box using javascript. The message can be quite large
(about 300 characters) and thus does not fit on one line. I noticed that
although the HTML source file shows a complete text, the confirmation box
does not; the end of the text is lost.

Is it possible to automatically show the text on multiple lines, or should
I manually add newline characters (how?) ?

thanks a lot in advance,

Martin

[Marek A. Stepien]

Re: confirmation box question

Martin Herrman wrote:[color=blue]
> Is it possible to automatically show the text on multiple lines, or should
> I manually add newline characters (how?) ?[/color]

Just use the \n special character:

confirm("This is the first line\nand this is the second one.");

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[Chris Riesbeck]

Re: confirmation box question

Martin Herrman <m.herrman@stud ent.tue.nl> wrote in message news:<pan.2003. 11.13.15.30.40. 375749@student. tue.nl>...[color=blue]
>
> I am programming in PHP. The PHP code makes a message which I want to show
> in a confirmation box using javascript. The message can be quite large
> (about 300 characters) and thus does not fit on one line. I noticed that
> although the HTML source file shows a complete text, the confirmation box
> does not; the end of the text is lost.
>
> Is it possible to automatically show the text on multiple lines, or should
> I manually add newline characters (how?) ?[/color]

confirm("line one\nline two")