How to pass a reference to a string in JavaScript?

Question

Maybe a closure is my solution? Not exactly sure how to pull it off though.

The code is set up like so:

var globalVar = '';
var globalVar2 = '';

function func()
{
   if (condition)
     func2(globalVar) 
   else 
     func2(globalVar2)
}

In func2() I cache some HTML in a main container into the appropriate global variable that I pass to it. Basically I have a main container that holds different pages depending on what tab they choose. For performance I want to cache the page into global vars so I need to know what tab is active to figure out which global var to assign the HTML to.

Answer 1

The way you've done it will work just fine. However, you're not really passing the reference to a string, you're binding the global variables into your closure. Do you have a more specific question? Does your code not work?

Answer 2

Might I suggest simply adding these cached pages to the dom and hiding them using CSS rather than trying to hold onto them in JS and constantly change the main content container?

Answer 3

as globals are just properties of the window object in javascript, just pass "globalVar" or "globalVar2" and assign it using window[myvar] = ...