What the heck is this kind of js?

[johnhamman]

Ok, I am not an expert and hopefully I won't get burned for this question, But I am confussed by the following sample since I don't know where to find tutorials about these methods

var SomeThing = { SomeItem:"String" ,SomeFunction:function { return window.Somthingelse;},initialize:function{startsome code;}} 
SomeThing.initialize();

So my question is I have never seen SomeFunction:function {} with the ":". What's that about and where can I find out more about it. It seems alot of advanced JS code out there uses this method.

[DrDoc]

That's a way of creating an object.

<script type="text/javascript">
foo = { bar:"Hello!", baz:new function() { now = new Date(); return now; } }
alert(foo.bar);
alert("The current date and time is " + foo.baz);
</script>

[Little_G]

Hi,

johnhamman, try searching for 'object literal syntax' this should give you more info.

Andrew

[johnhamman]

Thanks Little_G thats exactly what I was looking for.
john

[DrDoc]

[developer.mozilla.org...]

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foo = {};
foo["bar"] = "Hello!";
foo["baz"] = new function() { now = new Date(); return now; };

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foo = { bar:"Hello!", baz:new function() { now = new Date(); return now; } }

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function createObj() {
this.bar = "Hello!";
this.baz = new function() { now = new Date(); return now; }
}
foo = new createObj();

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foo = new Object();
foo.bar = "Hello!";
foo.baz = new function() { now = new Date(); return now; }