<script language="JavaScript">
  <!-- Hide JavaScript code from old browsers
      var country = "USA";
      document.writeln("My name is John.<br>");
      document.writeln("I live in the" + country + ".<br>");
  // end hiding code -->
</script>

In the example above a variable named country is declared that holds the string USA. The document.writeln, statement tells the browser to print on the screen what is contained inside the parentheses.

You should recognize the HTML tag <br>. HTML tags are permitted inside writeln statements, and perform just as they would in any HTML document. So, in this example, each writeln statement is output to a different line. One thing to remember when adding HTML tags is that they should be placed inside quotes like a string. It doesn't matter if you use single or double quotes, the browser will treat them in the same fashion.