Learn ECMAScript - Second Edition

Multiline strings

Template strings provide a new way to create strings that contain multiple lines of text. In ES5, we need to use the \n newline character to add new line breaks. Here is an example to demonstrate this:

console.log("1\n2\n3");

The output is as follows:

123

In ES6, using a multiline string, we can simply write:

console.log(`123`);

The output is as follows:

123

In the preceding code, we simply included new lines where we needed to place \n. While converting the template string to the normal string, the new lines are converted to \n.