InnerHTML with long text

[smartic]

i need to enter long text having line brakes into div tag by innerHTML command
this is an example of the text i want to enter:
cat
car
dog
boy
it give me an error unterminated string literal

[hsriat]

What's the need of line breaks inside the text? It won't be shown as line breaks in the HTML anyhow.
If you want to give line breaks, use <br>.

Is that it or I couldn't get it?

[Markus]

What's the need of line breaks inside the text? It won't be shown as line breaks in the HTML anyhow.
If you want to give line breaks, use <br>.

Is that it or I couldn't get it?

<br /> if you want to be technical ;]

[acoder]

That's if you're using XHTML. For HTML, <br> is correct.