Availability
JavaScript 1.5; JScript 5.5; ECMAScript v3
Inherits from/Overrides
Inherits from Error
Constructor
new SyntaxError( )new SyntaxError(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 SyntaxError object.
Returns
A newly constructed SyntaxError 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 SyntaxError(
) 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 SyntaxError
objects inherit the value "SyntaxError" for this
property.
Description
An instance of the SyntaxError class is thrown to signal a syntax
error in JavaScript code. The eval( ) method, the
Function( ) constructor, and the RegExp(
) constructor may all throw exceptions of this type. See
Error for details about throwing and catching
exceptions.
See Also
Error, Error.message, Error.name
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Errata
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition
By
David Flanagan
Publisher
: O'Reilly
Pub Date
: November 2001
ISBN
: 0-596-00048-0
Pages
: 936
Slots
: 1
This fourth edition of the definitive reference to
JavaScript, a scripting language that can be embedded
directly in web pages, covers the latest version of the
language, JavaScript 1.5, as supported by Netscape 6 and
Internet Explorer 6. The book also provides complete
coverage of the W3C DOM standard (Level 1 and Level 2),
while retaining material on the legacy Level 0 DOM for
backward compatibility.