Javascript document.write question

Brett Baisley · Feb 17, 2004

Hello

I have a block of html code that I want to run by calling a javascript
function to print it. Its basically a table with menu items in it that is
the same for many pages, and instead of copying/pasting everytime I change
it, I figure this will be better, as I only change it once.

The problem is, document.write doesn't handle multiple lines very well, so I
was wondering what is the best way to do this? Maybe there is even a better
way then javascript calls.

Anything will be great! Thanks!

Brett

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn · Feb 24, 2004

mscir said:
[...] If you mean the data is not easy to read on the generated page,
insert \n where you want a newline to begin. Post your code for more
specific suggestions.

http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/ecmascript/quickref/escaped_characters.html

This code generates a new window with a table.

<html>

DOCTYPE declaration?

<title>CodeAve.com(JavaScript New Window within Previous Page)</title>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

Text color?

<script language="JavaScript">

"type" attribute?

<!--
function open_new_window() {
new_window =
open("","displayWindow","width=575,height=620,left=10,top=10\n");

Wrong. The options (third) argument of window.open() must not
contain newline. And _window._open() is recommended since there
is document.open(). The function should be defined within
the "head" element, not the "body" element, to be available always.

// open new document
new_window.document.open();

// Text of the new document goes here
// Replace your " with ' or \" or document.write statements will fail

new_window.document.write("<html>\n");

See above.

new_window.document.write("<head>\n");
new_window.document.write("<meta http-equiv='Content-Type'
content='text/html; charset=windows-1252'>\n");

^^^^^^^^^^^^
What about UAs that does not support this Windows character set?
ISO-8859-1 is better.

new_window.document.write("<title>Table of Data</title>\n");

^^
Not only that this is and creates invalid HTML for the most part, a
smaller example would have sufficed. You have posted more than 200
lines of garbage!

PointedEars

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Javascript document.write question

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn

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