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Jason Berry
5,180 PointsIm stuck on this question
I have tried everything around the author. I guess that I am not understanding the property in this question. const book = { title: 'Romeo and Juliet', author: 'William Shakespeare', rating: 3.74, genres: ['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Romance'] }
//Log the value of the author property to the console console.log(author);
4 Answers
andren
28,558 PointsTo pull out a property from an object you need to access it using dot notation or bracket notation. Like this book.author or this book["author"]. Just writing author by itself will not work since that will make JavaScript look for a variable called author.
Dot notation is the most common option, and is the one the quiz expects you to use. So the answer the quiz accepts is: book.author
Edit: When bracket notation is used you need to pass in a string. I accidentally forgot to surround the word in quotes but that has now been corrected.
Jon Lawrence
4,798 PointsWhat about console.log(this.author); ? we just had to figure out to use "this" and now its not accepted?
Heba Hendy
7,786 Points(book.author);
Welcome Julius
9,076 Pointswhat is the answer please need help
Jason Berry
5,180 PointsJason Berry
5,180 PointsThank you so much for clarifying that for me. Now I understand much better.
andren
28,558 Pointsandren
28,558 PointsGlad I could be of help. Though I have one small self correction, I just noticed that I typed
book[author]in my post rather thanbook["author"]. When using bracket notation you need to specify the property name using a string, so the latter is the correct syntax.Just wanted to clarify that so that it didn't lead to even more confusion in the future.