June 1999
Intermediate to advanced
540 pages
21h 39m
English
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Name
String — support for strings
Availability
Core JavaScript 1.0; enhanced in Navigator 3
Constructor
new String(value) // JavaScript 1.1Properties
- length
The length of a string. JavaScript 1.0; ECMA-262.
Methods
- anchor(name)
Add an HTML anchor to a string.
- big()
Make a string
<BIG>.- blink()
Make a string
<BLINK>.- bold()
Make a string bold with
<B>.- charAt(n)
Get the nth character from a string. JavaScript 1.0; ECMA-262.
- charCodeAt(n)
Get the nth character code from a string. JavaScript 1.2; ECMA-262.
- concat(value, . . . )
Concatenate strings. JavaScript 1.2.
- fixed()
Make a string fixed-width with
<TT>.- fontcolor(color)
Set a string’s color with
<FONT>.- fontsize(size)
Set a string’s font size with
<FONT>.- indexOf(substring, start)
Search a string. JavaScript 1.0; ECMA-262.
- italics()
Make a string italic with
<I>.- lastIndexOf(substring, start)
Search a string backward. JavaScript 1.0; ECMA-262.
- link(href)
Add a hypertext link to a string.
- match(regexp)
Find one or more regular expression matches. JavaScript 1.2.
- replaceregexp (replacement)
Replace substring(s) matching a regular expression. JavaScript 1.2.
- search(regexp)
Search for a regular expression. JavaScript 1.2.
- slice(start, end)
Extract a substring. JavaScript 1.2.
- small()
Make a string
<SMALL>.- split(delimiter)
Break a string into an array of strings. JavaScript 1.1; ECMA-262.
- strike()
Strike out a string with
<STRIKE>.- sub()
Make a string a subscript with
<SUB>.- substring(from, to)
Return a substring of a string. JavaScript 1.0; ECMA-262.
- substr(start, ...
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