JavaScript Guidelines

JavaScript Guidelines

Some other important things to know when scripting with JavaScript. 

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JavaScript is Case Sensitive

A function named "myfunction" is not the same as "myFunction" and a variable named "myVar" is not the same as "myvar".

JavaScript is case sensitive - therefore watch your capitalization closely when you create or call variables, objects and functions.

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White Space

JavaScript ignores extra spaces. You can add white space to your script to make it more readable. The following lines are equivalent:

var name="Hege"; var name = "Hege";

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Break up a Code Line

You can break up a code line within a text string with a backslash. The example below will be displayed properly:

document.write("Hello \ World!");

However, you cannot break up a code line like this:

document.write \ ("Hello World!");