{"id":1067,"date":"2010-09-13T12:03:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T06:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/JitendraZaa.com\/blog\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2010-09-13T12:03:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T06:33:37","slug":"javascript-error-expected-identifier-string-or-number-in-internet-explorer-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/webtech\/web\/javascript-error-expected-identifier-string-or-number-in-internet-explorer-ie\/","title":{"rendered":"JavaScript Error &#8220;\u02dcexpected identifier, string or number&#8217; in Internet Explorer (IE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my friend come across a  javascript error &#8220;<strong>expected identifier, string or number<\/strong>&#8221; in internet explorer (IE). The same code was running great in Mozilla and chrome. here the snap of code causing an error:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: jscript; highlight: [22]; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nvar horizontalTab = {\n&quot;MyProducts&quot; :  &#x5B;\n\t\t\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&quot;ImageName&quot; : &quot;my_products.png&quot;,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&quot;SelectedImageName&quot; : &quot;my_products_selected.png&quot;,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&quot;HoverImageName&quot; : &quot;myProductsHowerbottom.png&quot;\n\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t],\n&quot;MyTeam&quot; :  &#x5B;\n\t\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t\t\t&quot;ImageName&quot; : &quot;my-team-white_bottom.png&quot;,\n\t\t\t\t\t&quot;SelectedImageName&quot; : &quot;my-team-bottom.png&quot;,\n\t\t\t\t\t&quot;HoverImageName&quot; : &quot;myTeamBottomHover.png&quot;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t],\n&quot;MyFinance&quot; :   &#x5B;\n\t\t\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&quot;ImageName&quot; : &quot;finance_white-legal-Bottom.png&quot;,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&quot;SelectedImageName&quot; : &quot;finance-legal-bottom.png&quot;,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&quot;HoverImageName&quot; : &quot;FinancenLegalHoverBottom.png&quot;\n\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t],\n\t\t\t }\n<\/pre>\n<p>The javascript debugger displayed the error on function which does not have to do anything with actual cause. Luckily we observed the <strong>line 22, extra comma <\/strong>present at last declaration in <strong>JSON <\/strong>was causing this error.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this article will help lots of people if they came across same problem and save hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solution of expected identifier, string or number&#8217; in Internet Explorer (IE) &#8211; javascript<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"jz_research_post":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[338,121,126],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web","tag-web","tag-intenet-explorer","tag-javascript"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4618,"url":"https:\/\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/salesforce\/most-frequently-used-code-snippets-for-salesforce-developers-faq-part-21\/","url_meta":{"origin":1067,"position":0},"title":"Salesforce Developers interview questions &#8211; 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