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<li>VSCode Version: 0.10.11</li>
<li>OS Version: Ubuntu 15.10 x64</li>
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<p dir="auto">Steps to Reproduce:</p>
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<li>Define a variable in a Javascript/Typescript file and assign a multi-line string value, using the "" (backslash) character to join lines. e.g.</li>
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<div class="highlight highlight-source-js notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" dir="auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="var mlString = &quot;The is my long multi-line string which I am using a backslash \
                to join over these lines.&quot;"><pre class="notranslate"><span class="pl-k">var</span> <span class="pl-s1">mlString</span> <span class="pl-c1">=</span> <span class="pl-s">"The is my long multi-line string which I am using a backslash \</span>
<span class="pl-s">                to join over these lines."</span></pre></div>
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<li>In the vscode editor only the first line of the string is correctly color-coded as a string-type. See screenshot attached.<br>
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<p dir="auto"><em>From @KevinSCreative on December 30, 2015 18:13</em></p>
<p dir="auto">After the first line, multi-line strings in JavaScript don't get string color. In the following example, only "Hello World" has the string color, and the obj variable declaration is all one color. In the default theme, 'var' is supposed to be blue. I would also expect the rest of the string to be orange in the default theme, not just the first line.</p>
<p dir="auto">I am running VSC 0.10.6 and I have no extensions installed.</p>
<div class="highlight highlight-source-ts notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" dir="auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="var test = 'Hello World!\
&lt;div&gt;\
&lt;p&gt;Testing&lt;/p&gt;\
&lt;/div&gt;\
    ';
var obj = $(test);
"><pre class="notranslate"><span class="pl-k">var</span> <span class="pl-s1">test</span> <span class="pl-c1">=</span> <span class="pl-s">'Hello World!\</span>
<span class="pl-s">&lt;div&gt;\</span>
<span class="pl-s">&lt;p&gt;Testing&lt;/p&gt;\</span>
<span class="pl-s">&lt;/div&gt;\</span>
<span class="pl-s">    '</span><span class="pl-kos">;</span>
<span class="pl-k">var</span> <span class="pl-s1">obj</span> <span class="pl-c1">=</span> <span class="pl-en">$</span><span class="pl-kos">(</span><span class="pl-s1">test</span><span class="pl-kos">)</span><span class="pl-kos">;</span></pre></div>
<p dir="auto"><em>Copied from original issue: <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="124381843" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/1716" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/microsoft/vscode/issues/1716/hovercard" href="https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/1716">microsoft/vscode#1716</a></em></p>