How do I reference a javascript object property with a hyphen in it?

Question

Using this script to make a style object of all the inherited etc styles.

var style = css($(this));
alert (style.width);
alert (style.text-align);
         


        

Answer 1

Use brackets:

var notTheFlippingStyleObject = {
    'a-b': 1
};

console.log(notTheFlippingStyleObject["a-b"] === 1); // true

More info on objects: MDN

NOTE: If you are accessing the style object, CSSStyleDeclaration, use must camelCase to access it from javascript. More info here