javascript array only works when not completely full of content

Question

I have an array full of quotes, and on load a random quote is displayed. The problem I'm having is everything works fine when I only have 2 quotes loaded, but when I added the entire list, it no longer runs.

Here is the code that works-

<div id="quotes">Quotes</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var quotes = [
 "<i>Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.</i><br><b>Bob Marley</b>",
 "<i>Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. </i><br><b>Bruce Lee</b>"
];
document.getElementById('quotes').innerHTML = quotes[Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length)];
</script>

The above works as expected, however when I add the rest of the quotes (as seen below) The script no longers works.

<div id="quotes"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var quotes = [
"<i>Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.</i><br><b>Bob Marley/b>",
"<i>Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. </i><br><b>Bruce Lee</b>",
"<i>Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.</i><br><b>Winston
Churchill</b>",
"<i>If your dreams don’t scare you they’re not big enough.</i><br><b></b>",
"<i>It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.</i><br><b>E.E. Cummings</b>",
"<i>All endings are also beginnings, we just don’t know it yet.</i><br><b></b>",
"<i>There are three kinds of people: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and
those who wonder what the heck happened.</i><br><b></b>",
"<i>There are people so poor, that the only thing they have is money.</i><br><b> </b>",
"<i>Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.</i><br><b>John F. Kennedy</b>",
"<i>Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.</i><br><b>J.K. Rowling</b>",
"<i>When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote
down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t
understand life.</i><br><b>John Lennon</b>",
"<i>Not all those who wander are lost</i><br><b>JRR Tolkien</b>",
"<i>We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.</i><br><b></b>",
"<i>Strive for progress, not perfection.</i><br><b></b>",
"<i>What defines us is how well we rise after falling.</i><br><b></b>",
"<i>It’s not hard to make decisions once you know what your values are.</i><br><b>Roy E. Disney</b>",
"<i>Sorry’s not good enough.</i><br><b></b>",
"<i>I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.
Every day is a new beginning. Stay away from what might have been and look at what can
be.</i><br><b></b>",
"<i>Who inspires you?</i><br><b></b>",
"<i>If you play by the rules long enough, then you can change the game.</i><br> <b>Enders Game</b>"
];
document.getElementById('quotes').innerHTML = quotes[Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length)];
</script>

Answer 1

You can't have newlines in JavaScript strings. You need to change this:

"str part
 the rest"

to this:

"str part\nthe rest"

or

"str part\n"
+ "the rest"

You should check the JavaScript console for errors; this can help you debug

Answer 2

Also, you can write multiple-lined strings like this:

var str = "beginning \
 continue \
 end.";

The backslash before the line break is another solution.

Answer 3

The line breaks inside strings caused the issue. Here is fully working code:http://jsfiddle.net/whizkid747/5tyrY/

<div id="quotes">Quotes</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var quotes = [
"<i>Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.</i><br><b>Bob Marley</b>",
"<i>Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.</i><br><b>Bruce Lee</b>",
"<i>Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.</i><br><b>WinstonChurchill</b>",
"<i>If your dreams don’t scare you they’re not big enough.</i><br><b></b>",
"<i>It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.</i><br><b>E.E. Cummings</b>",
"<i>All endings are also beginnings, we just don’t know it yet.</i><br><b></b>",
"<i>There are three kinds of people: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what the heck happened.</i><br><b></b>",
"<i>There are people so poor, that the only thing they have is money.</i><br><b> </b>",
"<i>Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.</i><br><b>John F. Kennedy</b>",
"<i>Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.</i><br><b>J.K. Rowling</b>",
"<i>When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.</i><br><b>John Lennon</b>",
"<i>Not all those who wander are lost</i><br><b>JRR Tolkien</b>",
"<i>We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.</i><br><b></b>",
"<i>Strive for progress, not perfection.</i><br><b></b>",
"<i>What defines us is how well we rise after falling.</i><br><b></b>",
"<i>It’s not hard to make decisions once you know what your values are.</i><br><b>Roy E. Disney</b>",
"<i>Sorry’s not good enough.</i><br><b></b>",
"<i>I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday. Every day is a new beginning. Stay away from what might have been and look at what can be.</i><br><b></b>",
"<i>Who inspires you?</i><br><b></b>",
"<i>If you play by the rules long enough, then you can change the game.</i><br> <b>Enders Game</b>"
];
document.getElementById('quotes').innerHTML = quotes[Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length)];
</script>