New line string from javascript

Question

I cant do new line from javascript, I tried to do that with \\n, but nothing.

 document.getElementById("text").textContent = "hhh" + '\\n' + "df";

 <h1 id="text"> abc </h1>

Answer 1

Changing textContent to innerText will do it.

 document.getElementById("text").innerText = "hhh" + '\\n' + "df";

 <h1 id="text"> abc </h1>

The line break behavior is standardized .

Answer 2

Apparently you are pretty new in javascript. You should use <br> instead. \\n new line for console outputs. Also you should use innerHTML instead of textContent .

 document.getElementById("text").innerHTML = "hhh" + '<br>' + "df";

 <h1 id="text"> abc </h1>

With textContent

 document.getElementById("text").textContent = "hhh" + '<br>' + "df";

 <h1 id="text"> abc </h1>

Console example:

 console.log("abc\\ndef");