A javascript problem when learning Beast

[yananay]

now i’m learning the Beast source code,
but a problem happened when read the javascript like below:

var TopicForm = {
editNewTitle: function(txtField) {
$(‘new_topic’).innerHTML = (txtField.value.length > 5) ?
txtField.value : ‘New Topic’;
}
}

what’s the meanning of
" var xxx = {

} " ?

i haven’t known such using…

appricated if you can give me some adivce or any useful link

thanks!

[yananay]

On 5/17/07, Yan R. [email protected] wrote:

}

thanks!

var xxx = … is what we in the porn industry use to declare
javascript variables. The brackets ( {}'s ) is used for declaring an
object literal.

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guide:Literals#Object_Literals

Also, you’ll probably get more intelligent responses in the
rails-spinoff thread, which is dedicated to prototype/scriptaculous.

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Rick O.
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[yananay]

thanks!