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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">/char</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">2</span> IE <span class="emphasis">3</span> ECMA <span class="emphasis">1</span></td>
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						<p>JavaScript provides a mechanism for including common whitespace
characters (sometimes called control codes) inside strings, as well
as symbols that otherwise conflict with string representation. The
key is the backslash character (<span class="literal">\</span>), followed
immediately by a single character with a special meaning. The
following table shows the recognized escaped characters and their
meanings.
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							<td colspan="2"><p>			These characters come in handy for alert, confirm, and prompt dialog
box text. For example, if you want to display multiple paragraphs
with a blank line between them in an alert box, you would insert line
feed characters:
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<span class="PROGRAMLISTING"><pre>alert(&quot;First paragraph.\n\nSecond paragraph.&quot;)</pre></span>
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							<td colspan="2"><p>			Note that these characters apply to strings, and do not influence
HTML content formatting for carriage returns.</p>
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								<table border="1"><tbody><tr><th>Escape sequence</th><th>Description</th></tr>
										<tr><td><span class="literal">\b</span></td><td>Backspace</td>
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										<tr><td><span class="literal">\t</span></td><td>Horizontal tab</td>
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										<tr><td><span class="literal">\n</span></td><td>Line feed (new line)</td>
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										<tr><td><span class="literal">\v</span></td><td>Vertical tab</td>
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										<tr><td><span class="literal">\f</span></td><td>Form feed</td>
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										<tr><td><span class="literal">\r</span></td><td>Carriage return</td>
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										<tr><td><span class="literal">\"</span></td><td>Double quote "</td>
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										<tr><td><span class="literal">\'</span></td><td>Single quote '</td>
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										<tr><td><span class="literal">\\</span></td><td>Backslash</td>
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