javascript Syntax error : Unterminated string literal [duplicate]

Answer 1

You can't assign multiline values to a variable in js, so you have to write it this way:

var video = '<OBJECT ...>';
video += '...';

But... the way you're creating an object element is not correct - you'd better use document.createElement for more clear code.

Answer 2

I have copied and pasted the code into my machine. And I found the error.

On line 4,

var video= '
<OBJECT ID="player" width="800" height="450" CLASSID="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..." TYPE="application/x-oleobject">

This is causing the error. You have put a line break on line 4 after the equal to = sign. Javascript considers every line break as new statement. Please remove unnecessary line breaks and it should work.

Thanks.

Answer 3

Javascript doesn't support multi-line strings, you'll need to either:

• make that tag one big line, or
• use a trailing backslash on each line to indicate "continuation", or
• use multiple strings joined together.