passing string with new line code

http://stackoverflow.com/q/22416349/1430996

HTML

<div id="manipulate_me">Gets replaced</div>

JavaScript

var msg="Hi there\nGood to see you\nAlways a pleasure",
    returnElement=function(message) {
        document.getElementById("manipulate_me").innerHTML='<span onClick="alert(\''+message.split("\n").join("\\n")+'\');">click me and I throw a JavaScript error</span>';
    };

returnElement(msg);