How to Add a Carriage Return in Javascript

In this tutorial, you will learn how to add a carriage return in javascript. In a string, you are free to use any combination of letters, numbers, punctuation, and special characters. We further add a few line breaks to make reading strings easier. For a newbie developer, it can be a bit tricky to add a carriage return in the string.

There are numerous ways to add a carriage return in the string. But for the sake of simplicity, we will make use of template string which helps in creating a dynamic string by using variables in it. The character \n is used to add newline character or a carriage return in a string.

In the following example, we have some global variables. Upon click of a button, we will add a carriage return in the string and display the result on the screen.  Please have a look over the code example and the steps given below.

HTML & CSS

  • We have 3 elements in the HTML file (divbutton, and h1). The div element is just a wrapper for the rest of the elements.
  • The innerText for the button element is “Add” and for the h1 element, it is “Result”.
  • We have done some basic styling using CSS and added the link to our style.css stylesheet inside the head element.
  • We have also included our javascript file script.js with a script tag at the bottom.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
  <title>Document</title>
</head>

<body>

  <div class="container">    
    <button>Add</button>
    <h1>Result</h1>
  </div>

  <script src="script.js"></script>
</body>

</html>
.container {        
    text-align: center;
}

button {
  margin-top: 10px;
  padding: 10px 20px;
}

Javascript

  • We have selected the button element and h1 element using the document.querySelector() method and stored them in btnAdd and output variables respectively.
  • We have three global variables str1str2 and newLineChar where the first two holds a string and the latter holds a new line character (\n).
  • We have attached a click event listener to the button element.
  • In the event handler function, we are creating a string dynamically using template literal where we we are using global variables str1str2 and newLineChar .
  • We are storing the final string in the result variable.
  • We are displaying the result in the h1 element using the innerText property.
let btnAdd = document.querySelector("button");
let output = document.querySelector("h1");

let str1 = "Mr. James";
let str2 = "Keep an eye on him.";
let newLineChar = "\n";
 
btnAdd.addEventListener("click", () => {  
  let result = `${str1}${newLineChar}${str2}`;
  output.innerText = result;
});