JavaScript toString Method: Number Object

Last update on August 19 2022 21:51:08 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Description

The toString() method is used to get a string representation of the specified number object.

Version

Implemented in JavaScript 1.1

Syntax

toString()
toString(radix)

Parameters

radix: An integer between 2 and 36 specifying the base to use for representing numeric values.

Example:

In the following web document, toString() method returns the string representation of a given number.

!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>JavaScript Number object - toString() method example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="color: red">JavaScript Number object : toString() method</h1>
<hr />
<script type="text/javascript">
//This is done to make the following JavaScript code compatible to XHTML. <![CDATA[
var x = Number(301);
document.write(x.toString());
//]]>
</script>
</body>
</html>

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Supported Browser

Internet Explorer 7	Firefox 3.6	Google Chrome 7	Safari 5.0.1	Opera 10
Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

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