Days of the Week

[Gary Pickles]

My first bit of jQuery, which finds the day of the week and highlights the day in an UL.

My Question is can these two lines be combined?

var day = new Date(); var weekday = day.getDay()

[Gary Pickles]

I made a pen

[Day of the Week Pen…](

See the Pen IczhD by Gary Pickles (@Garypickles) on CodePen

“Day of the week Pen”)

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My Question is can these two lines be combined?

very simply:

var weekday = new Date().getDay();

This is called “method chaining.” Since functions are first-class (and, since functions are objects) in javascript, this will work any time the function/method on the left (e.g., Date) returns an object that has the method/property on the right (e.g., getDay).

[Gary Pickles]

Thank you :)

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