Feb 5th, 2014 at 01:04 PM

JavaScript Literals

Literals: The raw data that make up the root of data types are called "literals". You use literals to represent values in JavaScript. These are fixed values, not variables, that you literally provide in your script 1. Primitive literals a. String literals: 1) Any set of characters placed in quotation marks (single or double) make up a string literal. 2) The escape sequence:

Charecter	Meaning
	Backspace
	Form feed
	New line
	Carriage return
	Tab
	Vertical tab
	Apostrophe or single quote
	Double quote
	Backslash character
	XXX

The character with the Latin-1 encoding specified by up to three octal digits XXX between 0 and 377. For example,