problem with backslashed multiline string

[anonymous]

Creating element or sub-tree from a string, that writed in a few lines with backslashes at the line ends now gives a syntax error.

jQuery('\

<div></div>\

'); => Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: <div></div>

but

jQuery('<div></div>'); => [<div>​</div>​]

[dmethvin]

Use $.parseHTML() for those cases, it is much more lenient about what it parses and also lets you specify whether to process script tags. See the upgrade guide for an example, if you haven't read it already.

​http://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/#jquery-htmlstring-versus-jquery-selectorstring

[dmethvin]

Oh also, if you just want to have a literal string with newlines, try

jQuery($.trim('\

<div></div>\

'));