Associative arrays in Jquery

Question

If I have an associative array like this:

var names = { '10watt' : '_ULR', '20watt' : '_ULR', '30watt' : '_ULR', '40watt' : '_ULR', '50watt' : '_ULR', '60watt' : '_ULR', '75watt' : '_ULR', '100watt' : 'ULCR', '120watt' : 'ULCR', '150watt' : 'ULCR' };

how do I write the value of the key to the browser, if the key is this.id?

I tried this but it didn't work (#name is the div I want to put the text in:

$('#name').text(names(this.id));

Answer 1

$('#name').text(names[this.id])

This is not related to jQuery in any way though. In JavaScript, if you have an object obj , then you can access its property prop either like this obj.prop , or like this obj["prop"] .