Escape characters in JavaScript

Javascript Web Development Object Oriented Programming

Escape characters are characters that can be interpreted in some alternate way then what we intended to. To print these characters as it is, include backslash ‘\’ in front of them. Following are the escape characters in JavaScript −

Code	Result
\b	Backspace
\f	Form Feed
\n	New Line
\r	Carriage Return
\t	Horizontal Tabulator
\v	Vertical Tabulator
\'	Single quote
\"	Double quote
\\	Backslash

Following is the code implement escape character Backslash in javaScript −

Example

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<title>Document</title>
<style>
   body {
      font-family: "Segoe UI", Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;
   }
   .result {
      font-size: 18px;
      font-weight: 500;
   }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Escape characters in JavaScript</h1>
<div class="result"></div>
<script>
   let str = 'Hello World "This" is some sample \\ Text \' ';
   let resEle = document.querySelector(".result");
   resEle.innerHTML = str;
</script>
</body>
</html>

Output

AmitDiwan

Published on 17-Jul-2020 07:11:56

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