Unterminated string constant during @Html.Partial from javascript object

Question

var html = '@Html.Partial("_mypartialview")';
$("#container").html(html);

I am working in a single page application and I don't want to hide the container div element; instead I want to load the html content into my javascript object.

But I get the error:

Unterminated string constant.

I have tried various methods without any success. Any help as to why I get this error would be really appreciated.

Is that all your code? Check which line the error is thrown on, because no error is thrown for me. — theonlygusti, Feb 27 '15 at 09:39

heymega · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-27T10:56:24.573

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Like this

var html = "@Html.Partial("_mypartialview").ToHtmlString().Replace("\n", "<br/>").Replace(" ", "")";

The ToHtmlString() method HTML encodes your html so the quotes won't confuse your JavaScript.

The two replace methods will remove new lines and whitespace so the content is all on one line.

Update

_mypartialview

 <div>
     <span data-bind="text:playerInfo.Name"> </span> 
</div>

Code

 var html = "@Html.Partial("_mypartialview").ToString().Replace(Environment.NewLine, "").Replace(" ", "")"

This outputs the following

var html = "&lt;div&gt;&lt;spandata-bind=&quot;text:playerInfo.Name&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;"

edited Feb 27 '15 at 10:56

answered Feb 27 '15 at 10:02

heymega

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Thanks. But still i get the same error. And the content is not in single line. – Dilip Nandakumar Feb 27 '15 at 10:42
Strange it works fine for me. Can you give me the html for your partial view and I will try and reproduce the issue? – heymega Feb 27 '15 at 10:43
Nothing much really
Hello
– Dilip Nandakumar Feb 27 '15 at 10:50
I am using asp.net mvc 5 and i copied ur code ditto. – Dilip Nandakumar Feb 27 '15 at 10:50
OK I've made an update based on your html. I needed to remove the new lines. – heymega Feb 27 '15 at 10:56

Unterminated string constant during @Html.Partial from javascript object

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