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Eldar
Eldar

Reputation: 872

How to split long string by newline in asp.net mvc view template

I want split Javascript code by newlines, but the compiler gives me an error:

<%= Html.ActionLink("Delete", "delete", new { id = Model.Id }, 
            new { 
                @class="button-link", 
                onclick = " javascript;
                  javascript goes here; 
                  javascript goes here; 
                  javascript goes here;
                return false;"
        }
    ); %>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 912

Answers (2)

LukeH
LukeH

Reputation: 269628

You could use a verbatim string literal -- starting the string with the @ symbol -- but it probably makes more sense to move your JavaScript out into a separate .js file, as Darin suggests.

<%= Html.ActionLink("Delete", "delete", new { id = Model.Id },
                    new {
                            @class = "button-link",
                            onclick = @"javascript;
                                        javascript goes here;
                                        javascript goes here;
                                        javascript goes here;
                                        return false;"
                        });
%>

Upvotes: 2

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1039438

Not directly answering your question but proposing an alternative: javascript has nothing to do in HTML and both should never be mixed. It should be in a separate file:

<%= Html.ActionLink(
    "Delete", "delete", new { id = Model.Id }, 
    new { @class = "button-link", id = "foo" }); %>

and then in a separate js file (using jquery):

$(function() {
    $('#foo').click(function() {
        // TODO: put as many lines of javascript as you wish here
        return false;
    });
});

This way your markup is smaller, static resources such as javascript is cached by the client browser and you don't need to worry about simple, double, triple quotes, ...

Upvotes: 1

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