JavaScript Strings_basics Guide
String fundamentals: creation, escaping, template literals, and basic operations for text. The guide walks through String Basics. Quotes: single, double, backtick. Escape: \n, \t, \', \", \\. Multi-line: `template literal`. Concatenation: `+`, `.concat()`. Access: `str[0]`, `str.charAt(0)`. Length: `str.length`. Comparison: `===`, ` `. `localeCompare` for language-aware sorting. Trim: `trim()`, `trimStart()`, `trimEnd()`. The guide is organized into 1 sections that build on each other, each pairing a prose explanation with runnable code. Related guides: Arrays, Strings, Numbers, Math, Date. This is one of 145 JavaScript guides on JS Reference — see the full list on the guides page. Practice what you learn in the JavaScript playground, and look up any unfamiliar term in the JavaScript glossary.