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JavaScript

Eli Levit
Eli Levit
4,482 Points
Posted by Eli Levit
Eli Levit
4,482 Points

not clear

Why do we write: const text = cards[id][side]; and not : const text = cards[id].side; //????

1 Answer

Brandon VanCamp
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Brandon VanCamp
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 30,954 Points

Dot-notation is most commonly used in JS to access properties of objects, which means that the property name is given after a full stop character. For example: Given:

<html>
<form id="myForm" action="/">
  <div><input name="foo"></div>
</form>
</html>

We can say:

<script>
var myForm = document.getElementById("myForm");
var input = myForm.foo;
</script>

Here we call the getElementById property of the document object as a function, and then we take the foo property of the form (which is the input with the name "foo"). Square bracket notation lets us do exactly the same thing, but with different syntax:

<script>
var myForm = document["getElementById"]("myForm");
var input = myForm["foo"];
</script>

You can also read more here : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Property_Accessors

Hopefully this helped.