Jquery problem

[Chris-2k]

hi.

when i add this to my .js file:

PHP Code:

// Add File Input
function addInput(){
    $("#localUpload").append('    <div class="file_input_div">
        <input id="fileName" class="file_input_textbox" placeholder="No File Selected..." readonly="readonly" />
        <input type="button" value="Browse..." class="file_input_button" /> 
        <input type="file" name="image_upload[]" id="file_upload" class="file_input_hidden" onchange="javascript: this.form.fileName.value=((this.value.replace(/^.*[\/\\]/g, "")).split("..",2));" />
    </div>
');
} 


it says theres an error, why........

[devnull69]

You cannot just include line breaks inside a string literal. You'll have to escape them using the \ backslash character.

    $("#localUpload").append('    <div class="file_input_div">\
        <input id="fileName" class="file_input_textbox" placeholder="No File Selected..." readonly="readonly" />\
        <input type="button" value="Browse..." class="file_input_button" /> \
        <input type="file" name="image_upload[]" id="file_upload" class="file_input_hidden" onchange="javascript: this.form.fileName.value=((this.value.replace(/^.*[\/\\]/g, "")).split("..",2));" />\
    </div>\
');

[Chris-2k]

Well that didn't help, any other ideas...

[devnull69]

What is the error then?

[devnull69]

You are using the backslash inside a javascript string to handle regular expression escaping, but it is already used for javascript character escaping. So you will have to replace every \ backslash inside the regular expression with a double backslash \\ which will escape the backslash to be used for the regex.