How to check if object has any properties in JavaScript?

Question

Assuming I declare

var ad = {}; 

How can I check whether this object will contain any user-defined properties?

Answer 1

Most recent browsers (and node.js) support Object.keys() which returns an array with all the keys in your object literal so you could do the following:

var ad = {}; 
Object.keys(ad).length;//this will be 0 in this case

Browser Support: Firefox 4, Chrome 5, Internet Explorer 9, Opera 12, Safari 5

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/keys