How to insert a large block of HTML in JavaScript?

Question

If I have a block of HTML with many tags, how do insert it in JavaScript?

var div = document.createElement(\'div\');
div.setAttribute(\'class\', \'post block         


        

Answer 1

If I understand correctly, you're looking for a multi-line representation, for readability? You want something like a here-string in other languages. Javascript can come close with this:

var x =
    "
 \
     \
    
 \
    some text \
    
 \
    
";