Reversing a string in JavaScript

Question

I\'m trying to reverse an input string

var oneway = document.getElementById(\'input_field\').value();
var backway = oneway.reverse();

but f

Answer 1

I think you'll find that in fact reverse() isn't a function in jQuery. Incidentally, jQuery is really good at manipulating your DOM, but isn't really for string manipulation as such (although you can probably get plugins/write your own) to do this.

The best way I've found to reverse a string in javascript is to do the following:

String.prototype.reverse = function(){
splitext = this.split("");
revertext = splitext.reverse();
reversed = revertext.join("");
return reversed;
}

Found at: http://www.bytemycode.com/snippets/snippet/400/

I think you'll find that if you pop the above into your code somewhere, your call to .reverse() should work :)