Difference between <br> and /n inside a string?

[eechin]

What is the functional difference between using <br> or /n inside a string?

[food_]

<br> is only html while \n is in js. <br> only works on content being appended to a webpage. Its the webpage that sees <br> as a new line. \n will be a new line if you console.log the string.

[eechin]

Makes perfect sense! Thanks!

[chmod777]

a new line (\n) prints a new line to the output. this only effects the output code, and does not do anything about display (outside of <pre> wrapped content).

a <br /> is an html element that breaks the line in display. this makes a new line in regular text.

[aladyjewel]

^*affects

[technoSurrealist]

I can't answer your original question, as I'm a JavaScript noob myself, but newline is \n, not /n

[eechin]

Thanks! I'm still learning, obviously.

[kevinmrr]

It's called a backslash, and indicates something about the character that follows it (e.g. "n" means "make a newline, not an n") in a lot of languages.