How to concat character \ as a string to a text in javascript? I want to write this code line in javascript:

var x = "$$\" + $("#formul").val() + "$$";

How to do this?

How to concat character \ as a string to a text in javascript? I want to write this code line in javascript:

var x = "$$\" + $("#formul").val() + "$$";

How to do this?

• javascript
• special-characters

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Escape the backslash:

var x = "$$\\" + $("#formul").val() + "$$";

The problem you have currently is that the backslash is the escape character. It escapes the following " character so your string doesn't close.