jQuery - How to recursively loop over an object's nested properties?

Question

Is there are a way to recursively loop over all the nested properties of a JS/jQuery object?

For example, given this object

var x = {
    \'name\': \         


        

Answer 1

var x = {
    'name': 'a',
    'level': 1,
    'children': [{
        'name': 'b',
        'level' : 2,
        'children' : [{
            'name': 'c',
            'level' : 3,
            'children' : [{
            }]
        }]
    }, {
        'name': 'b2',
        'level' : 2,
        'children' : [{
            'name': 'c2',
            'level' : 3,
            'children' : [{
            }]
        }]
    }]
}
var step = x;
do {
    if (step instanceof Array){
        for (i=0; i < step.length; i++) {
            callback(step[i]);
        }
    }
    else {
        callback(step);
    }
    step = step.children != undefined ? step.children : null;
} while (step);

function callback (element) {
    console.log(element);
}

as long as the structure does not change, you can go down like this.