JavaScript Special Characters

In JavaScript you can add special characters to a text string by using the backslash sign.

Insert Special Characters

The backslash (\) is used to insert apostrophes, new lines, quotes, and other special characters into a text string.

Look at the following JavaScript code:

In JavaScript, a string is started and stopped with either single or double quotes. This means that the string above will be chopped to: Sun Microsystems is the developer of

To solve this problem, you must place a backslash (\) before each double quote in "Viking". This turns each double quote into a string literal:

JavasScript will now output the proper text string: Sun Microsystems is the developer of "Java" programming language.

Here is another example:

The example above will produce the following output:

The table below lists other special characters that can be added to a text string with the backslash sign:

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