The problem is if I console log this string: "Lorem " the console.log will output: Lorem and I can't tell if at the end of the string there is white space or not.

How can I force console to show output in quotation marks?

The problem is if I console log this string: "Lorem " the console.log will output: Lorem and I can't tell if at the end of the string there is white space or not.

How can I force console to show output in quotation marks?

• javascript
• console.log

• 1 console.log('"Lorem "'); – silencedogood Commented Aug 20, 2019 at 17:35
• You cannot really do that. You can just add delimiters and potentially overwrite the console.log to always do that. But it's probably too much of a hack to do for the whole application. – VLAZ Commented Aug 20, 2019 at 17:36
• Use another console. – Jonas Wilms Commented Aug 20, 2019 at 17:37
• 2 console.log(JSON.stringify("Lorem ")) – Emeeus Commented Aug 20, 2019 at 17:37
• It actually prints with the space, it is just we don't see that. If you try highlighting the printed string you will see spaces getting selected. – Saad Sahibjan Commented Aug 20, 2019 at 17:42

4 Answers 4

Try

let s = "Lorem";
console.log( JSON.stringify(s) );

let lorem = "Lorem ";
console.log('"'+lorem+'"');
// Prints: "Lorem "

More generally, the pattern console.log('"'+expression+'"') will print out the expression with quotes on either side so you can see where the actual beginning and end of the expression is.

If you want this to happen every time, consider creating a function like so:

function myConsole(...expr){
  console.log('"'+expr.join(' ')+'"');
}

And using that instead of console.log

Simply escape the slashes:

console.log("\"Lorem \"")

or wrap the double quotes in single quotes (or vice-verse)

console.log('"Lorem "');

To show single quote ( " ) with a string use this syntax

console.log("\"\Your string");

gives output as "Your string