multiline alert not working

[Z1P2]

I have this alert that works:

<script type="text/javascript">
var monitor = setTimeout("alert('The monitor is working!');",0);
</script>
</head>

But I want to turn the alert message into a multiline alert, and when I do this:

<script type="text/javascript">
var monitor = setTimeout("alert('The monitor is working!\n\ntest line two');",0);
</script>
</head>

It doesn't work, any ideas what I'm missing here?

-- PS the timeout is set to 0 for testing purposes only, otherwise it would have a value of 10000

[gits]

hi ...

you have to escape the backslahes for the linefeed:

setTimeout("alert('The monitor is working!\\n\\ntest line two');",0)

kind regards

[Z1P2]

ohh, thank you very much. It works great now!

[dmjpro]

hi ...

you have to escape the backslahes for the linefeed:

setTimeout("alert('The monitor is working!\\n\\ntest line two');",0)

kind regards

Why should I put double slashes?
Please let me know !

Kind regards,
Dmjpro.

[gits]

the normal and better way would be:

setTimeout(function() { alert('test\nline2') }, 0)

as you can see here we may use the single slash. but when using:

setTimeout("alert('test\nline2')", 0)

javascript tries to evaluate the string and we get an unterminated string literal:

alert('test\n

i think it evals it as a linefeed in our js-code ... so we have to escape the slash again:

setTimeout("alert('test\\nline2')", 0)

and now it is working.

kind regards