Referring to a javascript object

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Looking at some sample javascript code at http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/manual/api/autoloader.html I see:

<script src="shCore.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="shAutoloader.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> SyntaxHighlighter.autoloader( 'js jscript javascript /js/shBrushJScript.js', 'applescript /js/shBrushAppleScript.js' ); SyntaxHighlighter.all(); </script>

In this example, what is a SyntaxHighlighter? a global variable? a singleton? a what?

SoWhat · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-18 17:16:06Z

Syntax highlighter might be an object literal with a method named all. This is generally done to organize functions into namespaces to avoid populating the global namespace. It might be defined as such: Check out this http://jsfiddle.net/PQbEU/2/

syntaxhighligter = { all: function(inputColor) { if (!inputColor) inputColor= prompt("Enter a color"); $('#all').css({ background: inputColor }); } } syntaxhighligter.all();

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:56:41Z

From https://github.com/alexgorbatchev/SyntaxHighlighter/blob/master/scripts/shCore.js - it's a function which returns an object. It's a JavaScript code-organization pattern.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1598077/18255

http://www.adequatelygood.com/2010/3/JavaScript-Module-Pattern-In-Depth

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