Question

I have the following in my HTML5 code which makes use of javascript:

     var myObj = localStorage[dataObj];
     alert(myObj);
     alert(myObj.City);

When I do alert(myObj) it shows {“ID”:68,”City”:New York} which is what is in var.
I now need to get the value of City. I do the following but it shows as undefined:
alert(myObj.City);
I also tried

    alert(myObj[0]:City) but that did not work as well 

Answer 1

myObj is a string, it needs to be parsed into an object.

myObj = JSON.parse(myObj);
console.log(myObj.City);

P.S. console.log is much better for debugging than alert.