Web Developer's Reference Guide

Operators

In programming languages, operators are operations to be performed on operands. Basically, operators are symbols used to perform various operations. Consider the following example:

9 + 11 = 20

In the preceding example, 9 and 11 are operands and + is the additional operator.

Overview

Like other languages, in JavaScript, there are several operators to perform an operation, such as addition, multiplication, subtraction, and so on.

In JavaScript, there are different operators such as:

• The logical operator
• The bitwise operator
• The conditional operator
• The arithmetic operator
• The assignment operator

Binary operator

As the name suggests, binary operators require two operands; for example:

A + B

Here, A and B are operands and + is the operator to perform ...