The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition

String

Strings are sets of characters between quotes. See Chapter 11 for more information on strings.

Properties

length

FF, IE 3

Read-only: Number of characters in a string

Example:

var the_string = "hello";
var the_length = the_string.length;

This code sets the_length to 5.

Methods

anchor()

FF, IE 3

Takes a name as a parameter and returns an anchor tag with the string as the text of the link

For example:

var the_string = "Information About Fish";
var the_anchor = the_string.anchor("fish_info");
window.document.writeln(the_anchor);

writes <a name = "fish_info">Information About Fish</a> to a web page.

big()

FF, IE 3

Puts the string between <big> and </big> tags

For example:

var the_string = "something really important"; window.document.writeln(the_string.big()); ...