writeln and write with a return character

[w0lf42]

Is there any real difference between the following two code samples?
document.writeln("test message");and
document.write("test message\n");

Thanks

[Willy Duitt]

The first example once rendered and you veiw source will show that each statement is on its own line. The second will display one long string.

[w0lf42]

Actually, I was under the impression that the "\n" will cause a new line in the source code.

I was curious if there is any coding advantage to one over the other.

Thanks

[agent002]

both codes are identical, as writeln() inserts a newline at the end automatically, and in the write() version it is inserted manually using \n. So, the advantage of the first one would be that you don't need to manually type the newlines if you're gonna have lots of them.

[Willy Duitt]

\n will render and display a new line in a write statement(s) but the source will be one long string.