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Here JavaScript Tutorial will guide us that the JavaScript
Variables are used in Microsoft JavaScript to store values in your JavaScript.
JavaScript Variable is a way to retrieve and manipulate values using names. When used
effectively then can help in understanding what a JavaScript does.
Declaring JavaScript Variables
Although not required to declare a JavaScript Variable, it is considered good practice to declare
JavaScript Variables
before using them. You do this using the var statement in JavaScript. The
first time you
must use the var statement when declaring JavaScript Variables that are local to a
JavaScript Function. At all other times, using the
var statement to declare JavaScript Variables
before their use is a recommended practice.
Syntax and data types of JavaScript Variables
var variable1 = "I am using my first
JavaScript variable in JavaScript Tutorial!";
// The value stored in variable1 is of string data type.
// The sentence in quotes, the value of which is assigned to variable1, is a string
literal.
var variable2 = 3;
// The value stored in variable2 has numeric data type.
var variable3 = true;
// The value stored in variable3 has Boolean type.
var variable4 = 2.718281828
// The value
stored in variable4 has numeric type.
Naming JavaScript Variables
JavaScript is a
case-sensitive language, so naming a variable Variaiable1 is different
from naming it VARIABLE1. In addition, JavaScript Variable names, which
can be of any length, must follow certain rules below in JavaScript Tutorial.
- The first character must be a letter (either uppercase or lowercase)
or an underscore (_), or a dollar sign ($).
- Subsequent characters can be letters, numbers, underscores, or
dollar signs in JavaScript Variables.
- The JavaScript Variable name can't be a reserved word of JavaScript, see
details of JavaScript Reserved
Characters.
Some examples of valid JavaScript Variable names are as under.
- _Variable
- Variable9
- Variable_6
Some invalid JavaScript Variable names are as under.
- 99Cars // Starts with a number of JavaScript Variable is not allowed
- Jhon&Smith // Ampersand (&) is not a valid character for use in
JavaScript Variable
names.
In instances in which you
want to declare a JavaScript Variable and initialize it, but without giving it any
particular value, you may assign it a special value, as null.
var variable9 = null;
var variable8 = 3 * variable9; // At this
point, Variable8 becomes 0 as result.
If you declare a JavaScript Variable without assigning any value to
it, it exists but is undefined.
var variable1;
var variable2 = 1 * variable1;
// Places the value NaN in variable2 as variable1is undefined.
You can declare a variable implicitly without using var statement in
JavaScript by assigning
a value to it. You cannot, however, use a variable that has never been
declared at all. To do so generates an error at runtime.
variable4 = "";
// The variable variable4
is declared implicitly.
var variable5 = var1 + var2; // Generates an error because var1 and var2 don't
exist.
Limitations
of JavaScript Variables
Now might be a darn good time to discuss JavaScript Variable limitations to this process.
To begin with, the information is not saved after each surfing
like it is with a JavaScript Cookie. In order for this to work, you must ensure
the user moves in a linear fashion. Returning and backing up can harm
the information being carried.
Next, the way I have this set up, you can only transfer two variables
from page to page. You'll see why in a moment.
Also, the method I have written here isn't very friendly to spaces.
If the user puts a space in either of their two text boxes, that space
will be replaced by a plus sign. If you're going to accept spaces, you'll
either have to live with that or write some extra code to eliminate it.
In addition, this is done with JavaScript so there are browsers that will
not be able to play with it. I have written my code in JavaScript 1.0 so
the most browsers can understand what is to happen. I saw a suggestion on
doing this by setting the answers to an array. It's clever coding but it's
in JavaScript 1.2 which means bunches of browsers will throw errors.
The JavaScript Array method allows for endless
JavaScript Variables being passed but limited
browsers. Mine allows for the most number of browsers to be able to play
with the code but only two JavaScript Variables. You decide.
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