Variable Example

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Hi again, I'm still confused about variables, so I've knocked up this
HTML page to show you what I don't understand

So we can see XXX is declared in initAll(), so it is local,
but when clicking on the link... "123" is displayed in the alert.
So the function display() is using the XXX variable from the initAll()
function.
I thought this would give an error.
Can you explain why not?

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Christophe Verré

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?? Which browser are you using ?

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I'm using netbeans 3.6 with Internet Explorer 6(I think its 6, the one that comes with XP)

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When you don't use var, variables are created on the window object. So once they are created inside the body of a function, they are available from that point on.

Run the following:

[ March 08, 2006: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

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