Unterminated String Literal Error

[wwolfson]

Hiya,

Im trying to embed some Javascript into some xhtml which is embedded into a php file.

The line causing a problem is this:

<form id=\"deletetopic\" name=\"deletetopic\" method=\"post\" action=\"delete_topic.php\" onsubmit=\"confirm('Are you sure you want to this topic?\n\n + Please note all posts will be lost!');\">

However, the firefox javascript points out that the error is after the "confirm(' " so I have no idea.
Can anyone help?
Thanks, William.

[pbmods]

Heya, William.

Please use CODE tags when posting source code:

[CODE=html]
HTML code goes here.
[/CODE]

My guess is that your server-side language is interpreting the '\n's as literal line breaks. Try escaping them: \\n

[JeremyMiller]

Hiya,

Im trying to embed some Javascript into some xhtml which is embedded into a php file.

The line causing a problem is this:

<form id=\"deletetopic\" name=\"deletetopic\" method=\"post\" action=\"delete_topic.php\" onsubmit=\"confirm('Are you sure you want to this topic?\n\n + Please note all posts will be lost!');\">

However, the firefox javascript points out that the error is after the "confirm(' " so I have no idea.
Can anyone help?
Thanks, William.

I'd suggest that it's from your PHP. You're probably doing something like this:

echo '<form id=\"deletetopic\" name=\"deletetopic\" method=\"post\" action=\"delete_topic.php\" onsubmit=\"confirm('Are you sure you want to this topic?\n\n + Please note all posts will be lost!');\">';

which would cause the unterminated error at the ' after confirm(.