JavaScript Escaper
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Pasting arbitrary text straight into a JavaScript string literal rarely survives contact with reality: a quote closes the string early, a backslash swallows the next character, and a line break makes the file stop parsing entirely. Escaping converts those characters into the sequences JavaScript expects — \" for a quote, \\ for a backslash, \n for a newline — so the literal holds exactly what you meant. This tool escapes in that direction and unescapes back again, which is just as useful when you are reading a minified bundle or a stack trace and want the original text. Typical uses are embedding a snippet in a test fixture, building a string constant from prose, or recovering readable text from escaped source. Everything runs client-side in your browser, so nothing you paste is uploaded, and the conversion round-trips exactly.
Features
- Escapes quotes, backslashes, newlines, tabs, and carriage returns
- Unescape mode restores the original text
- Swap input and output in one click
- Round-trips exactly, so no characters are lost
- Preserves Unicode characters as written
- Live character, word, and byte counts
- Copy or download the result
- Entirely client-side — nothing is uploaded
Why use this javascript escaper?
- Stops quotes and backslashes from breaking your code
- Makes multi-line text safe for a single-line literal
- Recovers readable text from escaped source
- Instant with no signup or size limit
- Free and unlimited
Frequently asked questions
Which characters need escaping in a JavaScript string?
The quote character that delimits the string, the backslash itself, and control characters such as newline, carriage return, and tab. Everything else can normally appear literally.
Can I reverse the escaping?
Yes. Unescape mode converts the sequences back, so \n becomes a real newline and \\ becomes a single backslash, recovering the original text exactly.
Do template literals need the same escaping?
Mostly, but the delimiter differs. Template literals are delimited by backticks and can span lines, so backticks and ${ need escaping there while newlines do not.
Is the escaped output safe to embed in an HTML script tag?
Not automatically. A sequence such as </script> inside your text will still terminate an inline script block even within a string. When embedding in HTML, also escape the forward slash as <\/script>.
Are Unicode characters converted to \u escapes?
No. Accented letters and non-Latin scripts are left as-is, which keeps the output readable. Modern JavaScript sources are UTF-8, so this is safe.
Is my text uploaded?
No. The escaping runs entirely in your browser and the text is never transmitted, stored, or logged.