Newline in confirmation box

Question

I want to have two lines in my alert box

Right now I have the following:

<%= link_to 'back', 'history.back()', :confirm => 'Are you sure? This is my second line' %>

I have tried adding '\n' but it is not working, it just writes \n between my text. What should I do?

Thank you in advance

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 17 '11 at 09:40

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I think the single quotes around your confirm text are causing the \n to be interpreted literally. Try this:

<%= link_to 'back', 'history.back()', :confirm => "Are you sure? \n This is my second line" %>

edited Jun 17 '11 at 09:40

Oben Sonne

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answered Jun 17 '11 at 01:33

James

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The ":confirm" key needs to go inside the ":data" key hash now in Rails 4+ – weexpectedTHIS Aug 28 '15 at 22:41

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 12 '11 at 03:29

If you want a multi-line confirm/alert statement, you will need to use double quote. Single quote will not convert your new line feed \n

This would work: :confirm => "You are about to \n DELETE all tracking information.\nAre you sure?"

Hope this helps ;)

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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New line in JavaScript alert box You need to stop rails from escaping the new line in the generated HTML form. Can you try <%= link_to 'back', 'history.back()', :confirm => raw 'Are you sure? \n This is my second line' %>

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answered Jun 16 '11 at 23:19

Devin M

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I think replacing `history.back()` with `:back` would also work here? – Zabba Jun 16 '11 at 23:23
I just copied his code, but yeah `link_to :back` should work. – Devin M Jun 16 '11 at 23:25
'raw' did not work for me. I got a compile error. Replacing the single quotes for double quotes fixed my problem – marimaf Jun 17 '11 at 19:02

Newline in confirmation box

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