Question

a lot of times i can see function written like this :

name : function(){ ... }

i got several function about this :

1. what is this function different from normal(?) functions
2. what this kind of function calling like?

i couldn’t find any information about this kind of function , tutorial will help.

Answer 1

A function in the format:

name: function() { ... }

Is a function within an object literal.

obj = {
  myfunction: function() { ... }
}

Which can be accessed by obj.myfunction();