# Multiline strings in ES6 JavaScript

DevFeed: [Multiline strings in ES6 JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/multiline-strings-in-es6-javascript-32304.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://jack.ofspades.com/multiline-strings-in-es6-javascript/>)

Author: Jack Tarantino

Published: 2015-11-29T23:59:53Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Jacopo Tarantino](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jacopo-tarantino.md>)

Topics: [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [es6](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/es6.md>), [Template](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/template.md>)

Tags: [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [es6](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/es6.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [string](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/string.md>), [template](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/template.md>), [template-strings](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/template-strings.md>), [templates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/templates.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on ES6 Template Strings in JavaScript, covering multiline strings, interpolation, tagged template strings, and older ES5 techniques for writing multiline strings.

## Source excerpt

The new kid in town is called Template Strings. Template Strings are demarked by a backtick(`) on either end and can contain other backticks if they are escaped by a backslash(ie. let my_string = `some cool \`escaped\` thing`). This new kind of primitive in JavaScript is different from