Question

If I have an object like this:

var item = {
    id: '1',
    description: 'something'
}

then how do I extract one of these values? If I do

alert($(item.id));

then I just get an alert saying ‘Object object’. I had a look at this post: Getting the base element from a jQuery object and tried to invoke

alert($(item).get(0)); 

But with the same result.

Also, from a terminology point of view what are objects like this called so that next time I can be a bit more specific?

Answer 1

console.log(item.id)

$() returns a jQuery object.