Comments on: Show love to the object literal

By: Michael Prescott

Michael Prescott — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:38:27 +0000

I recently stumbled upon some usage of Object Literals and found your site while trying to learn why. I still don’t understand why object literals are better than using prototype.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:49:54 +0000

Bit late but in case anyone has the same thing as Merth, the line you’ll need is:
Answer: alert(this.objectProperty);
That’ll reference the current instance of the object in case you’ve got multiples.

By: Merth

Merth — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:59:21 +0000

thanks, but what if i have 2 instances of that object at the same time?

By: Merth

Merth — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:25:55 +0000

Hi Chris, awesome article. But i am having issues with object scope i think.

MyObject = {
objectProperty:”HELLO”,

applyAction : function(item) {
item.onmouseover = this.doOver;
},

doOver : function() {
alert(objectProperty);
}
}

all i get in alert window is “undefined”. How can i make javscript to alert objectProperty without assigning objectProperty to a global variable?

Answer: alert(MyObject.objectProperty);

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 31 May 2006 10:16:10 +0000

Check out Ajile. It’s an excellent approach to namespaces (code organization) in JavaScript.