Methods and Functions
In previous and subsequent chapters, you will see references to methods and discussions about methods that make them sound a good deal like functions. To help clarify the difference between methods and functions, this section skips ahead a bit to a discussion of objects in JavaScript. (The next chapter discusses objects in detail.)
Objects are collections of properties arranged in a hierarchy. The highest level of objects in the context of JavaScript and an HTML page is the window. Everything in an HTML page is a property of the window object. When a function is the property of an object, it is called a method. However, technically speaking, because everything in an HTML page is a property of the window object, all functions ...
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