title: org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptException: SyntaxError: '' string literal contains an unescaped line break while using executeScript through Selenium
body: <p>org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptException: SyntaxError: '' string literal contains an unescaped line break while using executeScript through Selenium</p>
  
  <p><code>executeScript()</code> is working perfect with single line <em>String</em> as an example: </p>
  
  <pre><code>String myText = "80120804076";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But when I am trying to send a multiline <em>String</em> <code>JavascriptException</code> is raised.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>Code trials:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import org.openqa.selenium.By;
  import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;
  import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
  import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
  import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
  import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
  
  public class send_large_text {
  
      static WebDriver driver;
      public static void main(String[] args) {
          System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\geckodriver.exe");
          driver = new FirefoxDriver();
          driver.get("https://translate.shell.com/");
          //String myText = "80120804076";
          String myText = "No, there is no way to hide the console window of the chromedriver.exe \n"
              + "in the .NET bindings without modifying the bindings source code. This is seen \n"
              + "as a feature of the bindings, as it makes it very easy to see when your code \n"
              + "hasn\'t correctly cleaned up the resources of the ChromeDriver, since the console window \n"
              + "remains open. In the case of some other languages, if your code does not properly clean up \n"
              + "the instance of ChromeDriver by calling the quit() method on the WebDriver object, \n"
              + "you can end up with a zombie chromedriver.exe process running on your machine.";
          (   (JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].value=\'" + myText + "\';", new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("textarea.form-control#translateText"))));
      }
  }
  </code></pre></li>
  <li><p>Error Observed:</p>
  
  <pre><code>1544184402064   mozrunner::runner   INFO    Running command: "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe" "-marionette" "-foreground" "-no-remote" "-profile" "C:\\Users\\ATECHM~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\rust_mozprofile.b4OAHY7RViE6"
  1544184406841   Marionette  INFO    Listening on port 11919
  1544184406988   Marionette  WARN    TLS certificate errors will be ignored for this session
  Dec 07, 2018 5:36:47 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession
  INFO: Detected dialect: W3C
  Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptException: SyntaxError: '' string literal contains an unescaped line break
  Build info: version: '3.14.0', revision: 'aacccce0', time: '2018-08-02T20:13:22.693Z'
  System info: host: 'ATECHM-03', ip: '192.168.1.6', os.name: 'Windows 8', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.2', java.version: '1.8.0_172'
  Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver
  Capabilities {acceptInsecureCerts: true, browserName: firefox, browserVersion: 63.0.3, javascriptEnabled: true, moz:accessibilityChecks: false, moz:geckodriverVersion: 0.23.0, moz:headless: false, moz:processID: 5620, moz:profile: C:\Users\AtechM_03\AppData\..., moz:useNonSpecCompliantPointerOrigin: false, moz:webdriverClick: true, pageLoadStrategy: normal, platform: WINDOWS, platformName: WINDOWS, platformVersion: 6.2, rotatable: false, setWindowRect: true, timeouts: {implicit: 0, pageLoad: 300000, script: 30000}, unhandledPromptBehavior: dismiss and notify}
  Session ID: 31ac155f-8f03-4adf-bc7b-a778f1235351
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.W3CHttpResponseCodec.createException(W3CHttpResponseCodec.java:187)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.W3CHttpResponseCodec.decode(W3CHttpResponseCodec.java:122)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.W3CHttpResponseCodec.decode(W3CHttpResponseCodec.java:49)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:158)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:83)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:548)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.executeScript(RemoteWebDriver.java:485)
      at demo.send_large_text.main(send_large_text.java:25)
  </code></pre></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I have been through the related discussions:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Java:
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/878573/java-multiline-string">Java multiline string</a></li>
  </ul></li>
  <li>JavaScript:
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/508269/how-do-i-break-a-string-across-more-than-one-line-of-code-in-javascript">How do I break a string across more than one line of code in JavaScript?</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14256320/javascript-syntax-error-unterminated-string-literal">javascript Syntax error : Unterminated string literal</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/227552/common-sources-of-unterminated-string-literal">Common sources of unterminated string literal </a></li>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6876264/unterminated-string-literal">unterminated string literal</a></li>
  </ul></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Reference: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Errors/Unterminated_string_literal" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SyntaxError: unterminated string literal</a></p>
  
  <p>Still no clue where I am going wrong. Can anyone help me out ?</p>