I have a bunch of jQuery objects with a init method, so right now I have something like this
$.myobject1.init(somevar);
$.myobject2.init(somevar);
$.myobject3.init(somevar);
$.myobject4.init(somevar);
$.myobject5.init(somevar); // somevar is the same var in all the calls
but I'm looking for a way to simply this code, something like this
var objectName = "myobject1"; // or any other object name
$. objectName .init(somevar);
thanks for the help! :-)
Since they are already jQuery objects you don't need $. and you can use .add() like this :
var object = myobject1.add(myobject2).add(myobject3).add(myobject4).add(myobject5);
object.init(somvar)
Just use
$[objectName].init(somevar);
in javascript, all objects are maps. it's really weird, but it means you can do this trick:
var p = "mypropertyname";
var obj = {};
obj[p] = somevalue;
then, if you do:
console.log(obj.mypropertyname)
you'll get:
> somevalue
If you mean you want to loop through the names of your objects, then you should know that you can't combine strings with dot notation:
var someObj = {
subObj: {
a: 5
}
};
someObj.subObj.a === 5; // true
someObj."subObj".a === 5; // throws error
But you can use strings with square bracket notation:
someObj["subObj"].a === 5; // true
var propName = "subObj";
someObj[propName].a === 5; // true
So you can use that to loop through your object names with a for loop, or you can use a jQuery method as suggested in other answers.
$[objectName].init()not work?