JavaScript Interview Questions for both Experienced Programmers and Freshers
1) What is JavaScript?
Ans:JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development.
2) What is the difference between JavaScript and Jscript?
Ans:Both JavaScript and Jscript are almost similar. JavaScript was developed by Netscape. Microsoft reverse engineered Javascript and called it JScript.
3) How do we add JavaScript onto a web page?
Ans:There are several way for adding JavaScript on a web page, but there are two ways which are commonly used by developers If your script code is very short and only for single page, then following ways are the best:
a) You can place
4) Is JavaScript case sensitive?
Ans:Yes! A function getElementById is not the same as getElementbyID.
5) What are the types used in JavaScript?
Ans:String, Number, Boolean, Function, Object, Null, Undefined.
6) What are the boolean operators supported by JavaScript?
And Operator: && Or Operator: || Not Operator: !
7) What is the difference between “==” and “===”?
Ans: “==” checks equality only, “===” checks for equality as well as the type.
8) How to access the value of a textbox using JavaScript?
Ans: ex:- Code
Full name: There are following ways to access the value of the above textbox:
var name = document.getElementById('txtFullName').value; alert(name);
or: we can use the old way:
document.forms[0].mybutton. var name = document.forms[0].FirstName.value; alert(name);
Note: This uses the "name" attribute of the element to locate it
. 9) What are the ways of making comments in JavaScript?
Ans: // is used for line comments ex:- var x=10; //comment text /* */ is used for block comments
ex:- var x= 10; /* this is block comment example.*/
10) How will you get the Checkbox status whether it is checked or not?
Ans: var status = document.getElementById('checkbox1').checked; alert(status); will return true or false.
11) How to create arrays in JavaScript?
Ans:There are two ways to create array in JavaScript like other languages:
a) The first way to create array Declare Array:
Code var names = new Array();
Add Elements in Array:-
names[0] = "Vikas"; names[1] = "Ashish"; names[2] = "Nikhil";
b) This is the second way: var names = new Array("Vikas", "Ashish", "Nikhil");
12) If an array with name as "names" contain three elements, then how will you print the third element of this array?
Ans: Print third array element document.write(names[2]);
Note:- Array index starts with 0.
13) How do you submit a form using JavaScript?
Ans:Use document.forms[0].submit();
14) What does isNaN function do?
Ans: It returns true if the argument is not a number.
Example: Code document.write(isNaN("Hello")+ "
"); document.write(isNaN("2013/06/23")+ "
"); document.write(isNaN(123)+ "");
The output will be: true true false
15) What is the use of Math Object in JavaScript?
Ans: The math object provides you properties and methods for mathematical constants and functions. ex:- Code var x = Math.PI; // Returns PI
var y = Math.sqrt(16); // Returns the square root of 16
var z = Math.sin(90); Returns the sine of 90
16) What do you understand by this keyword in JavaScript?
Ans: In JavaScript the this is a context-pointer and not an object pointer. It gives you the top-most context that is placed on the stack.
The following gives two different results (in the browser, where by-default the window object is the 0-level context): var obj = { outerWidth : 20 }; function say() { alert(this.outerWidth); } say();//will alert window.outerWidth say.apply(obj);//will alert obj.outerWidth
17) What does "1"+2+4 evaluate to?
Ans: Since 1 is a string, everything is a string, so the result is 124.
18) What does 3+4+"7" evaluate to?
Ans: Since 3 and 4 are integers, this is number arithmetic, since 7 is a string, it is concatenation, so 77 is the result.
19) How do you change the style/class on any element using JavaScript?
Ans: Code document.getElementById(“myText”).style.fontSize = “10"; -or- document.getElementById(“myText”).className = “anyclass”;
20) Does JavaScript support foreach loop?
Ans: JavaScript 1.6(ECMAScript 5th Edition) support foreach loop,
21) What looping structures are there in JavaScript?
Ans: for, while, do-while loops
22) What is an object in JavaScript, give an example?
Ans: An object is just a container for a collection of named values: // Create the man object
Code /*var man = new Object(); man.name = 'Vikas Agrawal'; man.living = true; man.age = 27;*/
23) How you will add function as a property in a JavaScript object? Give an example.
Ans: Code var man = new Object(); man.name = 'Vikas Agrawal'; man.living = true; man.age = 27; man.getName = function() { return man.name;}
console.log(man.getName()); // Logs 'Vikas Agrawal'.
24) What is the similarity between the 1st and 2nd statement?
1st:- var myString = new String('male'); // An object
. 2nd:- var myStringLiteral = 'male'; // Primitive string value, not an object.
Ans: Both will call String() constructor function You can confirm it by running the following statement: console.log(myString.constructor, myStringLiteral.constructor);
25) What will be the output of the following statements? Code var myString = 'Vikas' // Create a primitive string object. var myStringCopy = myString; // Copy its value into a new variable. var myString = null; // Manipulate the value console.log(myString, myStringCopy);
Ans: // Logs 'null Vikas'
26) Consider the following statements and tell what would be the output of the logs statements? var price1 = 10; var price2 = 10; var price3 = new Number('10'); // A complex numeric object because new was used. console.log(price1 === price2); console.log(price1 === price3);
Ans: console.log(price1 === price2); // Logs true. console.log(price1 === price3); /* Logs false because price3 contains a complex number object and price 1 is a primitive value. */
27) What would be the output of the following statements?
var object1 = { same: 'same' }; var object2 = { same: 'same' }; console.log(object1 === object2);
Ans: // Logs false, JavaScript does not care that they are identical and of the same object type. When comparing complex objects, they are equal only when they reference the same object (i.e., have the same address). Two variables containing identical objects are not equal to each other since they do not actually point at the same object.
28) What would be the output of the following statements?
Code var object1 = { same: 'same' }; var object2 = object1; console.log(object1 === object2);
Ans: // Logs true
29) What is this? var myArray = [[[]]];
Ans: Three dimensional array
30) Name any two JavaScript functions which are used to convert nonnumeric values into numbers?
Ans: Number() parseInt() parseFloat()
Code var n1 = Number(“Hello world!”); //NaN
var n2 = Number(“”); //0
var n3 = Number(“000010”); //10
var n4 = Number(true); //1
var n5 = Number(NaN); //NaN
31) Does JavaScript Support automatic type conversion, If yes give example
. Ans: Yes! Javascript support automatic type conversion. You should take advantage of it, It is most common way of type conversion used by Javascript developers.
Ex. var s = '5';
var a = s*1;
var b = +s; typeof(s); //"string"
typeof(a); //"number"
typeof(b); //"number"
