Question

Hello I have a static option in my Jquery extension. The option is color:”blue”

$(ele).test({color:”color”});

//I tried this below

var anoption= “color”; $(ele).test({anoption:”blue”});

But it didint work. Is there anyway to serialize another variable into an option name as attempted above?

Answer 1

Objects simply don’t work that way. If you want to set a property of an object where the name of said property is contained in a variable, you must do it using bracket notation. For example,

var options = {}, anoption = "color";
options[anoption] = "blue";
$(ele).test(options);