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I don’t know what it is called or I would look it up, but when acsessing an object or arrays element in jQuery what is the differance between Obj.element and Obj[”element”]?

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  • They are called Object property accessors. They are the same, both try to access a property named element Commented Jul 8, 2017 at 3:43
  • Bracket notation. That's what it's called specifically. Commented Jul 8, 2017 at 3:49
  • This question is similar to: JavaScript property access: dot notation vs. brackets?. If you believe it’s different, please edit the question, make it clear how it’s different and/or how the answers on that question are not helpful for your problem. Commented Jan 16 at 14:59

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Obj.element and Obj[”element”]

Both these will access the same key element inside object Obj. Value against key name "element" will be returned.

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@IsaacS.Weaver Well, arrays are just objects with the keys 0, 1, 2, etc. You can't do arr.0 so you do arr[0]. It's the same operation.
Note arr[0] is equivalent to arr["0"], as property names are strings (or symbols)
@IsaacS.Weaver dot notation doesn't work on arrays, although arrays are objects with keys starting from 0 and incrementing for every push operation.
Perfect that answers my question completely! Thank you all!!

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