How do I break a string across more than one line of code in JavaScript?

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In your example, you can break the string into two pieces:

alert ( "Please Select file"
 + " to delete");

Or, when it’s a string, as in your case, you can use a backslash as @Gumbo suggested:

alert ( "Please Select file\
 to delete");

Note that this backslash approach is not necessarily preferred, and possibly not universally supported (I had trouble finding hard data on this). It is not in the ECMA 5.1 spec.

When working with other code (not in quotes), line breaks are ignored, and perfectly acceptable. For example:

if(SuperLongConditionWhyIsThisSoLong
  && SuperLongConditionOnAnotherLine
  && SuperLongConditionOnThirdLineSheesh)
{
    // launch_missiles();
}

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