Name

length — NN 2 IE J1 ECMA 1

Synopsis

Read-only

A count of the number of characters in the string. String values dynamically change their lengths if new values are assigned to them or if other strings are concatenated.

Example

for (var i = 0; i < myString.length; i++) {
    ...
}

Value

Integer.

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