JavaScript is an object oriented language. However, in practice objects defined by the programmer himself are rarely used, except in complex DOM API's. Of course such standard objects as window and document and their numerous offspring are very important, but they are defined by the browser, not by the programmer.

In JavaScript you can define your own objects. In addition, you can assign methods and properties to each object, pre-written or self-defined.

Methods are 'things that do something', they can be recognized by their brackets (). When you call them, like object.method(), something happens.

A JavaScript object has properties associated with it. You access the properties of an object with a simple notation: