JavaScript Operators

Example

Assign values to variables and add them together:

var x = 5;         // assign the value 5 to x
var y = 2;         // assign the value 2 to y
var z = x + y;     // assign the value 7 to z (x + y)

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The assignment operator (=) assigns a value to a variable.

Assignment

var x = 10;

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The addition operator (+) adds numbers:

Adding

var x = 5;
var y = 2;
var z = x + y;

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The multiplication operator (*) multiplies numbers.

Multiplying

var x = 5;
var y = 2;
var z = x * y;

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JavaScript Arithmetic Operators

Arithmetic operators are used to perform arithmetic on numbers:

OperatorDescription+Addition-Subtraction*Multiplication/Division%Modulus++Increment--Decrement

Arithmetic operators are fully described in the JS Arithmetic chapter.

JavaScript Assignment Operators

Assignment operators assign values to JavaScript variables.

OperatorExampleSame As=x = yx = y+=x += yx = x + y-=x -= yx = x - y*=x *= yx = x * y/=x /= yx = x / y%=x %= yx = x % y

The addition assignment operator (+=) adds a value to a variable.

Assignment

var x = 10;
x += 5;

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Assignment operators are fully described in the JS Assignment chapter.

JavaScript String Operators

The + operator can also be used to add (concatenate) strings.

Example

txt1 = "John";
txt2 = "Doe";
txt3 = txt1 + " " + txt2;

The result of txt3 will be:

John Doe

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The += assignment operator can also be used to add (concatenate) strings:

Example

txt1 = "What a very ";
txt1 += "nice day";

The result of txt1 will be:

What a very nice day

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When used on strings, the + operator is called the concatenation operator.

Adding Strings and Numbers

Adding two numbers, will return the sum, but adding a number and a string will return a string:

Example

x = 5 + 5;
y = "5" + 5;
z = "Hello" + 5;

The result of x, y, and z will be:

10
55
Hello5

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If you add a number and a string, the result will be a string!

JavaScript Comparison Operators

OperatorDescription==equal to===equal value and equal type!=not equal!==not equal value or not equal type>greater than<less than>=greater than or equal to<=less than or equal to?ternary operator

Comparison operators are fully described in the JS Comparisons chapter.

JavaScript Logical Operators

OperatorDescription&&logical and||logical or!logical not

Logical operators are fully described in the JS Comparisons chapter.

JavaScript Type Operators

OperatorDescriptiontypeofReturns the type of a variableinstanceofReturns true if an object is an instance of an object type

Type operators are fully described in the JS Type Conversion chapter.

JavaScript Bitwise Operators

Bit operators work on 32 bits numbers.

Any numeric operand in the operation is converted into a 32 bit number. The result is converted back to a JavaScript number.

OperatorDescriptionExampleSame asResultDecimal&AND5 & 10101 & 00010001 1|OR5 | 10101 | 00010101 5~NOT~ 5 ~01011010 10^XOR5 ^ 10101 ^ 00010100 4<<Zero fill left shift5 << 10101 << 11010 10>>Signed right shift5 >> 10101 >> 10010  2>>>Zero fill right shift5 >>> 10101 >>> 10010  2

The examples above uses 4 bits unsigned examples. But JavaScript uses 32-bit signed numbers.
Because of this, in JavaScript, ~ 5 will not return 10. It will return -6.
~00000000000000000000000000000101 will return 11111111111111111111111111111010

Bitwise operators are fully described in the JS Bitwise chapter.

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