JS Hash Tables and Anonymous Objects
May 13, 2003 4:39 PM
Tags: javascript
Tags: javascript
I did not know you could do this. Instead of creating an empty object in JS to store keys (properties) and values, you can do it inline:
Another syntactical treat — a way to loop through an object's properties without knowing what they are, nor the class of that object:
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
var joe = {name:'joe', age:26}
alert (joe.name + ' ' + joe.age); // says "joe 26"
</script>
From O'Reilly's JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook, by Danny Goodman.Another syntactical treat — a way to loop through an object's properties without knowing what they are, nor the class of that object:
function listProperties(obj, objName) {
var result = "";
for (var i in obj) {
result += objName + "." + i + "=" + obj[i] + "\n";
}
alert(result);
}
However, note:
The type of property enumeration shown in the listProperties( ) function in the Solution is useful not only for custom objects but also for DOM objects. When using it with DOM objects, some browser-specific behaviors reveal themselves. For example, IE for Windows enumerates all of the event handler properties of the object. Netscape 6 and later enumerate properties and methods. Unfortunately, Opera does not handle DOM objects, but the for/in type of looping works with custom objects.
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