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Step into, over, and out of functions

Step into, over, and out of functions - JavaScript Tutorial

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Step into, over, and out of functions

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- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to try the various stepping functions that we can use to navigate our JavaScript in the debugger once we're stopped. So I have my index.html file open in my Chrome debugger, and I'm down here where my custom JavaScript exists, so I'm gonna set a break point right here at the very beginning of my custom JavaScript, so in this case, on line 311. Now I'll reload the page. Okay, I've stopped, and I'm right here on the first variable assignment for flowers here. Now I'm executing a little bit of jQuery. So the first stepping function that you'll probably use the most at first, is the step over, and this will step over particular functions to the next executable piece. The way the stepping functions will behave in different debuggers is gonna vary a little bit, but the general idea is the same. If there's a function that's executing on the line where you're stopped, step over will take you to whatever the next one is, so let's try it. First, we're…

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