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Quick Explanation of the Object Literal

By Christian Heilmann | February 17th, 2006 | Filed in DOM, DOM Scripting TF

Christian Heilmann explains the object literal JavaScript syntax.

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Answering some emails, I realised lately that the object literal notation used in modern scripts does confuse JavaScript novices. So if the following is gobbledegook for you:


myStuff={
  myVariable:'value',
  init:function(){
  },
  doStuff:function(){
  }
}

It hopefully will help you to read Show love to the object literal.

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