Is there a shorthand for document.write in JavaScript?

Question

in .NET you have <%= or <%: in PHP it's echo, but does JavaScript have a shorthand for document.write()?

Thanks

Mark

Answer 1

No, it doesn't.

You can always:

function x (foo) { document.write(foo); } 
/* Where x is an unhelpfully short and uninformative function name */

Generally speaking, document.write should be avoided anyway. It is only useful during initial document generation and does nothing to handle special characters.

Answer 2

Yes, more than one.

But "with" is considered harmful because if you make mistake to call a property that is not set you can change the value of another property or create a new global variable with that property ( more info here )

example

var d = document;
d.write('text');

with (document){
    write('text');
}