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stateless 02-13-2014 04:59 PM
html: line continuation for strings
 
In HTML, if you have a really long string, is there a way to break it up into separate lines and keep it as one string? I want to have my HTML code within 80 character width. E.g.:

Code:
<a href="www.example.com/blahblahblahblah/somethingorother/really/long/url/path/goes/here/and/is/way/too/long/index.html">title</a>
Would become

Code:
<a href="www.example.com/blahblahblahblah/somethingorother/really/long/url/\
        path/goes/here/and/is/way/too/long/index.html">title</a>
But I tried that (and some variations) and it didn't work.

jlinkels 02-13-2014 05:14 PM
Did you try without the spaces (or tab) in front of path?

jlinkels

stateless 02-13-2014 06:38 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by jlinkels (Post 5117187)
Did you try without the spaces (or tab) in front of path?

jlinkels
Yeah, no luck.

dugan 02-14-2014 09:19 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by stateless (Post 5117179)
In HTML, if you have a really long string, is there a way to break it up into separate lines and keep it as one string?
No.

AnanthaP 02-16-2014 01:39 AM
I think simply hitting return in the text editor is all you need to do since the browser will render only tags like br, p-/p etc as new lines. So to the human (you) it is readable and as you would expect, it makes no difference to the machine (browser).

Note

OK

chrism01 02-18-2014 04:41 AM
Assuming dugan is right, there's nothing to stop you setting wrap as on in your editor; that way it appears ok to you (if not so nicely indented).


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