The JavaScript JSON Cookbook

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Let's look at loads and dumps further."

A block of code is set as follows:

function doAjax() {
var xmlhttp;
  if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
  {
    // code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
    xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
  }
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

function doAjax() { var xmlhttp; if (window.XMLHttpRequest) ...