JavaScript \t is there a space to?

tab is to big

[mossimo]

With JavaScript we have \t = Tab
But is there one for a space becuse tab is to big?

[MonkeeSage]

Not that I know of, except in the regular expressions context (in which case it is '\s'). If you just want a literal space, you can escape it like any other char...'This is a test\ string'...or you could use the \uXXXX unicode escape and use the code for a normal space, but I'm not sure what that is offhand...for a non-breaking-space it is \u00A0 if that helps any.

Jordan

[korkus2000]

Where will the outputted string going to be?

[mossimo]

I am am formating html code in a client side JavaScript editer html editor.
When in code view mode the code is pulled from a hiddin <div> and put into a textarea.

\t \n ect... is the only method I have to format the visual areance of the code in the editor

I'm trying to get this:

<table>  
 <tr>  
 <td> </td>  
 </tr>  
 <tr>  
 <td> </td>  
 </tr>  
</table> 

Insted of this:

<table>
<tr><td></td> </tr>
<tr><td></td>
</tr></table>

[MonkeeSage]

If I'm not mistaken when you change the textarea .value property you can use literal spaces, e.g.,

...
ta.value += " " + somevar;
...

Jordan

[edit:]

To expand on that a bit...

... 
<div id="hd"> 
 This is some text and 
 &lt;tags&gt; and such to be 
 put into the textarea! 
</div> 
  
<textarea id="ta"></textarea> 
  
<script type="text/javascript"> 
<!-- 
 var hd = document.getElementById("hd"); 
 var ta = document.getElementById("ta"); 
 var val = hd.innerHTML; 
 val = val.split(/\r?\n/); 
 for (var j = 0; j < val.length; j++) { 
  ta.value += " " + val[j] + "\n"; 
 } 
//--> 
</script> 
...

Works for me...

[/edit]