Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL ASP.NET mvc3

Question

Suppose I have following string:

var myString="<ol>\r\n<li>Some text</li>\r\n</ol>";

when I am trying to alert(myString) everything is ok but,

Suppose I have Model:

public class MyModel
{
   public string TestProperty{get;set;}
}

In controller I am setting TestProperty=myString in view :

@model MyModel
<script>
    jQuery(document).ready(function() {
        alert('@Model.TestProperty')// here I am getting error Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL
    })
</script>

I cant figure out what is the problem ,and how to fix it . Thanks a lot for your attention.

Jason P · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-16 19:25:57Z

5

Your generated javascript looks like this:

http://jsfiddle.net/MhtEL/

alert('<ol>
      <li>sometext</li>
      </ol>');

Which isn't valid javascript (string literals can't span multiple lines).

You could replace the newlines first:

alert('@Model.TestProperty.Replace("\r\n", "")')

edited Apr 16, 2014 at 19:25

answered Apr 16, 2014 at 19:13

Jason P

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2 Comments

Nic Over a year ago

Thanks for your solution ,this is working except console.log('@Model.TestProperty'); ,this will throw same error.

Jason P Over a year ago

Oh, duh. Not sure what I was thinking there.

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