CODEWITHSUNDEEP
javascripttwitter
prismspecs
prismspecs

Reputation: 1489

insert line break in tweet from URL?

So I have a script like this now: popUp("https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=" + greeting + poem + " -&url=" + siteURL, 704, 260);

The "poem" is a haiku and I'd love to have it like: line1 line2 line3

rather than line 1 // line 2 // line 3, which it is now. I tried inserting stuff like \n in there to no avail. "Poem" is constructed simply like line1 + " // " + line2 ...

Upvotes: 20

Views: 11756

Answers (3)

David
David

Reputation: 171

Use "%0A" for line break in the url directly. \n doesn't work in the url bar.

Upvotes: 0

Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 328


 Creates a line break on twitter if you're posting from the HTML form. You'll need to remove the spaces in bewteen the characters, I couldn't figure out how to make the answer not escape to a newline. Irony alert

Upvotes: 3

SLaks
SLaks

Reputation: 887225

As you've guessed, newline characters cannot appear in URLs.
Using a random escaping mechanism won't do you any good; you need to URL-encode the newline:

https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=abc%0adef

Upvotes: 35

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