Question

I have javascript object that contains nested objects. I want to iterate over these using a ‘for in’ loop but this returns a string instead of an object?

Code:

var myObject = {


    myNestedObject : {

        key1 : value 1 

    }

}

And then if i loop:

for(theObject in myObject){

    alert(typeof theObject);

}

This returns the string ‘myNestedObject’ but not the object itself.

Why?

Answer 1

theObject is the property key. What you want is probably:

for(var key in obj){
    var theObject = obj[key];
}