Some colors

Some music types

Some countries

See also

Euler's constant and the base of natural logarithms, approximately 2.718.

Syntax

Math.E

Property of

Math

Description

Because E is a constant, it is a read-only property of Math.

Examples

The following example displays Euler's constant:

document.write("Euler's constant is " + Math.E)

See also

An array of objects corresponding to form elements (such as checkbox, radio, and text objects) in source order.

Syntax

1. formName.elements[index]
2. formName.elements.length

formName is either the name of a form or an element in the forms array.
index is an integer representing an object on a form.

Property of

Description

You can reference a form's elements in your code by using the elements array. This array contains an entry for each object (button, checkbox, hidden, password, radio, reset, select, submit, text, or textarea object) in a form in source order. For example, if a form has a text field and two checkboxes, these elements are reflected as formName.elements[0], formName.elements[1], and formName.elements[2].

Although you can also reference a form's elements by using the element's name (from the NAME attribute), the elements array provides a way to reference form objects programatically without using their names. For example, if the first object on the userInfo form is the userName text object, you can evaluate it in either of the following ways:

userInfo.userName.value
userInfo.elements[0].value

To obtain the number of elements on a form, use the length property: formName.elements.length. Each radio button in a radio object appears as a separate element in the elements array.

Elements in the elements array are read-only. For example, the statement formName.elements[0]="music" has no effect.

The value of each element in the elements array is the full HTML statement for the object.

Properties

Examples

See the examples for the name property.

See also

An array of objects corresponding to form elements (such as checkbox, radio, and text objects) in source order. See elements array.

A string specifying the MIME encoding of the form.

Syntax

formName.encoding

formName is either the name of a form or an element in the forms array.

Property of

form

Description

The encoding property initially reflects the ENCTYPE attribute of the <FORM> tag; however, setting encoding overrides the ENCTYPE attribute.

You can set the encoding property at any time.

Certain values of the encoding property may require specific values for other form properties. See RFC 1867 for more information.

Examples

The following function returns the value of the musicForm encoding property:

function getEncoding() {
   return document.musicForm.encoding
}

See also

Returns the ASCII encoding of an argument in the ISO Latin-1 character set.

Syntax

escape("string")

string is a non-alphanumeric string in the ISO Latin-1 character set, or a property of an existing object.

Description

The escape function is not a method associated with any object, but is part of the language itself.

The value returned by the escape function is a string of the form "%xx", where xx is the ASCII encoding of a character in the argument. If you pass the escape function an alphanumeric character, the escape function returns the same character.

Examples

The following example returns "%26"

escape("&")

The following example returns "%21%23"

escape("!#")

See also

The eval function evaluates a string and returns a value.

Syntax

eval(string)

Description

The eval function is a built-in JavaScript function. It is not a method associated with any object, but is part of the language itself.

The argument of the eval function is a string. Do not call eval to evaluate an arithmetic expression. JavaScript evaluates arithmetic expressions automatically. If the argument represents an expression, eval evaluates the expression. If the argument represents one or more JavaScript statements, eval performs the statements.

If you construct an arithmetic expression as a string, you can use eval to evaluate it at a later time. For example, suppose you have a variable x. You can postpone evaluation of an expression involving x by assigning the string value of the expression, say "3 * x + 2", to a variable, and then calling eval at a later point in your script.

Examples

Example 1. Both of the write statements below display 42. The first evaluates the string "x + y + 1", and the second evaluates the string "42".

var x = 2
var y = 39
var z = "42"
document.write(eval("x + y + 1"), "<BR>")
document.write(eval(z), "<BR>")

Example 2. In the following example, the getFieldName(n) function returns the name of the nth form element as a string. The first statement assigns the string value of the third form element to the variable field. The second statement uses eval to display the value of the form element.

var field = getFieldName(3)
document.write("The field named ", field, " has value of ", eval(field + ".value"))

Example 3. The following example uses eval to evaluate the string str. This string consists of JavaScript statements that opens an alert dialog box and assigns z a value of 42 if x is five, and assigns zero to z otherwise. When the second statement is executed, eval will cause these statements to be performed, and it will also evaluate the set of statements and return the value that is assigned to z.

var str = "if (x == 5) {alert('z is 42'); z = 42;} else z = 0; "
document.write("<P>z is ", eval(str))

Example 4. In the following example, the setValue() function uses eval to assign the value of the variable newValue to the text field textObject.

function setValue (textObject, newValue) {
  eval ("document.forms[0]." + textObject + ".value") = newValue
}

Returns e^number, where number is the argument, and e is Euler's constant, the base of the natural logarithms.

Syntax

Math.exp(number)

Method of

Math

Examples

//Displays the value 2.718281828459045
document.write("The value of e<SUP>1</SUP> is " + Math.exp(1))

See also