I understand that. The line of failure in my original posting was
generated from this line:
document.getElementById("recipeIngredients").value="{{recipe.ingredients}}";
recipe.ingredients is the value from a text area written to the
database. The new lines are necessary for display.
Can you provide a suggestion on how two resolve this?
On Sep 8, 4:54 pm, Wooble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This has nothing whatsoever to do with App Engine, but 2 seconds in
> Google shows that if you want a multi-line string in Javascript you
> can just put a \ at the end of each line.
>
> On Sep 8, 5:49 pm,thepopeofantelope<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > A javascript function fails to render because and object
> > member(ingredients and directions) is of TextProperty type and
> > includes a value with newlines/linebreaks. I've tried to format the
> > value in the javascript function with no luck. Below is the page
> > source.
>
> > How do I resolve this?
>
> > function editRecipe(recipe) {
> > var form = document.getElementById("recipeform");
> > var dialog = document.getElementById("recipeform_dialog");
>
> > document.getElementById("recipeKey").value="ahNkZWxyYWVtYXJpZXNyZWNpcGVzcgwLEgZSZWNpcGUYBgw";
> > document.getElementById("recipeName").value="Mark";
> > <!--
> > document.getElementById("recipeName").value="Anise Candy";
> > -->
>
> > document.getElementById("recipeCategory").value=getCategoryIndex("Dessert");
>
> > document.getElementById("recipeCuisine").value=getCuisineIndex("American");
>
> > document.getElementById("recipeOccasion").value=getOccasionIndex("Other");
> > document.getElementById("recipeServes").value="4";
> > document.getElementById("recipeIngredients").value="BOIL TO CRACK
> > STAGE. 280 DEGREES
> > 2 CUPS OF WHITE SUGAR
> > 1 CUP OF WATER
> > 3/4 CUP OF WHITE CORN SYRUP
>
> > ";
> > document.getElementById("recipeDirections").value="REMOVE AND ADD
> > 1 TABLESPOON OF ANISE OIL.
> > 10 DROPS OF RED FOOD COLORING.
> > QUICKLY STIR TO MIX.
> > POUR INTO BUTTERED PAN.
> > WHEN COOLED BREAK INTO PIECES.
>
> > ";
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