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Roy Huang
4,367 Points'console' was used before it was defined
I am learning J.S. using Brackets.
When I was trying to use console.log, it tells my there is a JSLint Problem, 'console' was used before it was defined.
I don't know what could cause this happen and how to solve it, please help.
Thank you .
3 Answers
Matthew Orndoff
9,018 PointsConsole.log() is not actually defined in standard Javascript, so JSLint has no idea what you're talking about – it thinks you're trying to call a method ".log()" from an object "console" that wasn't defined yet. However, when you run your script in the browser, you should get output in the DevTools console.
Hope that helps.
Roy Huang
4,367 PointsHello Matthew, thank you for your prompt and clear answer.
If I understand clearly, I don' t have to worry about about the warning, and it will just display normally if I run it in my browser?
Matthew Orndoff
9,018 PointsYep! You can safely ignore it in this case.
Justin Walker
934 PointsThe page below goes into more detail and how to ignore the warning while in development.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40816924/jslint-throwing-error-when-using-console-log