Elegant clean way to include HTML in JavaScript files?

Question

I\'m building a small app with a few modal dialog windows. The windows require a tiny bit of HTML. I\'ve hard coded the window HTML in the javascript library but am not th

Answer 1

You're right, JS doesn't have heredocs or multi-line strings. That said, the usual approach to this is to have the HTML in...the HTML, and show or hide it as appropriate. You're already using jQuery, so you're most of the way there:

Then, you can populate the form and toss it in the right spot:

$('#data').html($('form.email').find('input#from').val(email).end().html());