On 9 Dec 2008, at 16:52, michael_teter wrote:
>
> I have a line like the following in my Rails view/template (generating
> JavaScript):
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> ...
> y = escape('<%= h(e.error_desc) %>');
> ...
> </script>
>
> Because some of the error_descs have newlines, the browser is
> receiving page code that looks like this:
>
> y = escape('Information about the error.
> Another line in the description.
> A third line in the description string.');
>
to_json ?
Fred
> JavaScript is choking on the broken string with the error
> "unterminated string literal". What is the best practices way to
> handle this, since apparently Rails's h() isn't removing newlines?
> >
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