String attribute values in multiple lines, HTML

Question

Is it possible, in HTML to write something like:

....

The idea is spl

Answer 1

No, it is not possible. HTML has no “line continuation” character. If you put a line break in an attribute value, browser behavior varies, but modern browsers behave in the manner documented in HTML5: a line break is allowed, and it is taken literally and stored as a line break in the DOM. This means that href attribute value is broken and does not work.

The best you do to alleviate the problem of long href values is to put such a value on a line of its own, without quotation marks:

link

In contrast, the following is allowed and causes as two-liner tooltip (in modern browsers). The point is that the general syntax allows line breaks, but they have consequences, and the specific syntax of an attribute may forbid line breaks.

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