Multi-line string insert using jQuery

Question

$("#addSelect").click(function() {
        $("#optionsForm").after("Hello world.");
} );

This works.

$("#addSelect").click(function() {
        $("#optionsForm").after("<tr>
    <td><input type="text" class="optionField" value="Options" /></td>
    <td>
        <ul class="option">
            <li><select><option>Value..</option></select></li>
        </ul>
    </td>
</tr>");
} );

Something like this doesn't.

In Chrome, I get the error "Unexpected token ILLEGAL". After Googling I've discovered my teeny brain doesn't know much about javascript and multi-lines. So I added '\' to then end of each line. Yet, I now get the error "Unexpected identifier".

I'd like this to not be as difficult as I'm making it :)

Answer 1

Change all the double quotes for the attributes to single quotes.

$("#addSelect").click(function() { 
        $("#optionsForm").after("<tr> \
    <td><input type='text' class='optionField' value='Options' /></td> \
    <td> \
        <ul class='option'> \
            <li><select><option>Value..</option></select></li> \
        </ul> \
    </td> \
</tr>"); 
} );