181360 - calling the alert() function does not parse html, including <BR> tags

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[mfahey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE i386) Opera 6.1  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529

<script language="JAVASCRIPT">
alert('this is the first message. <BR> This is the second. <BR> This is the thir');
</script>

The following outputs the <BR> instead of parsing them. how do you format text when using the alert function?

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

You use newlines (\n in JS strings).  The text in an alert is just that -- text.
 It's not HTML.

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

Verified Invalid. Once you are in JavaScript (and not HTML),
newlines are specified with "\n". Just try this:

<script language="JAVASCRIPT">
alert('This is the first message.\nThis is the second.\nThis is the third');
</script>