Rediscovering JavaScript

Multiline Strings

Creating a multiline string in the past involved effort and resulted in a lot of noise in code. Template literals may be single line or multiline—there is no special syntax to set the two apart, except for line breaks.

Here’s a multiline string with expressions in it.

literals/multiline.js

const name = 'John Doe';

const message = `Dear ${name},
We're delighted to let you know that you have been included in
our routine spam starting with this one.

  You can thank us later.
`;

console.log(message);

Start the string with a backtick, continue each new line with a line break, and end the string with the ending backtick. Expressions in the string are optional.

The output of this code is

Dear John Doe, ...