Name
SyntaxError: thrown to signal a syntax error â ECMAScript v3: Object â Error â SyntaxError
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 uses it as the value of its message
property; otherwise, it uses 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 âSyntaxErrorâ 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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