Availability
JavaScript 1.5; JScript 5.5; ECMAScript v3
Inherits from/Overrides
Inherits from Error
Constructor
new ReferenceError( )new ReferenceError(message)
Arguments
message
An optional error message that provides details about the exception.
If specified, this argument is used as the value for the
message property of the ReferenceError object.
Returns
A newly constructed ReferenceError object. If the
message argument is specified, the Error
object will use it as the value of its message
property; otherwise, it will use an implementation-defined default
string as the value of that property. When the
ReferenceError( ) constructor is called as a
function, without the new operator, it behaves
just as it does when called with the new operator.
Properties
message
An error message that provides details about the exception. This
property holds the string passed to the constructor, or an
implementation-defined default string. See
Error.message for details.
name
A string that specifies the type of the exception. All ReferenceError
objects inherit the value "ReferenceError" for this
property.
Description
An instance of the ReferenceError class is thrown when you attempt to
read the value of a variable that does not exist. See
Error for details about throwing and catching
exceptions.
See Also
Error, Error.message, Error.name