Sick of backslashes, quotes, and line breaks cluttering your code? Meet Text Blocks in Java 15 – the easy way to write clean, readable multiline strings like JSON, HTML, and SQL. No escapes. No mess. Just smooth strings.

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Text blocks, introduced in Java 15, provide a cleaner way to handle multiline strings without concatenation operators or escape sequences. They use triple quotes (""") as delimiters and automatically handle indentation based on the leftmost non-whitespace character. Text blocks are particularly useful for JSON, HTML, XML, SQL queries, and other multiline content, making code more readable and reducing syntax errors. IntelliJ IDEA offers excellent support with visual guides, language injection, and migration tools to convert existing string concatenations to text blocks.

Text Blocks in Java: Perfect for Multiline Strings

An example – what are the existing pain points

Practical examples – where to use Text Blocks

Code Migrations – using text blocks instead of a regular string

<p>Makes it easier to write multi-line text.</p>


<p>Damn, quite a lot of text for such a simple feature. Very useful and does make some of my code look cleaner… but still… so much text 💀</p>
