diff --git a/devtools/client/shared/components/reps/string.js b/devtools/client/shared/components/reps/string.js
index beb15b127367..175c1cafa905 100644
--- a/devtools/client/shared/components/reps/string.js
+++ b/devtools/client/shared/components/reps/string.js
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 define(function (require, exports, module) {
   // Dependencies
   const React = require("devtools/client/shared/vendor/react");
-  const { cropMultipleLines } = require("./rep-utils");
+  const { cropString } = require("./rep-utils");
 
   // Shortcuts
   const { span } = React.DOM;
@@ -43,13 +43,14 @@ define(function (require, exports, module) {
       }
 
       let croppedString = this.props.cropLimit ?
-        cropMultipleLines(text, this.props.cropLimit) : cropMultipleLines(text);
+        cropString(text, this.props.cropLimit) : cropString(text);
 
       let formattedString = this.props.useQuotes ?
         "\"" + croppedString + "\"" : croppedString;
 
       return (
-        span({className: "objectBox objectBox-string"}, formattedString
+        span({className: "objectBox objectBox-string"},
+          formattedString
         )
       );
     },
diff --git a/devtools/client/shared/components/test/mochitest/test_reps_string.html b/devtools/client/shared/components/test/mochitest/test_reps_string.html
index 4560c83aa438..19430f9eabd6 100644
--- a/devtools/client/shared/components/test/mochitest/test_reps_string.html
+++ b/devtools/client/shared/components/test/mochitest/test_reps_string.html
@@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ window.onload = Task.async(function* () {
 
   function testMultiline() {
     const renderedComponent = renderComponent(StringRep.rep, { object: getGripStub("testMultiline") });
-    is(renderedComponent.textContent, "\"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa\\nbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb\\ncccccccccccccccc\\n\"", "String rep has expected text content for multiline string");
+    is(renderedComponent.textContent, "\"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa\nbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb\ncccccccccccccccc\n\"", "String rep has expected text content for multiline string");
   }
 
   function testMultilineLimit() {
     const renderedComponent = renderComponent(StringRep.rep, { object: getGripStub("testMultiline"), cropLimit: 20 });
-    is(renderedComponent.textContent, "\"aaaaaaaaaa…cccccccc\\n\"", "String rep has expected text content for multiline string with specified number of characters");
+    is(renderedComponent.textContent, "\"aaaaaaaaaa…cccccccc\n\"", "String rep has expected text content for multiline string with specified number of characters");
   }
 
   function testMultilineOpen() {