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• Switch/Case Example

• window.onload = initAll;
• function initAll() {
• document.getElementById("Lincoln").onclick = saySomething;
• document.getElementById("Kennedy").onclick = saySomething;
• document.getElementById("Nixon").onclick = saySomething;
• }
• function saySomething() {
• switch(this.id) {
• case "Lincoln":
• alert("Four score and seven years ago...");
• break;
• case "Kennedy":
• alert("Ask not what your country can do for you...");
• break;
• case "Nixon":
• alert("I am not a crook!");
• break;
• default:
• }
• }

• Here we are looking at a variable named “id”. We compare “id” to the available value options using the case statements

• Here we are also using the new keyword “this”. This means “the currently selected object”. In this context it means “the button the user clicked”