This method clones the passed object using shallow copy. It copies all the original's properties to the result.
object.clone() ;
<html> <head> <title>Prototype examples</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="/javascript/prototype.js"> </script> <script> function showResult(){ var o = { name: 'Prototype', version: 1.5, authors: ['sam', 'contributors'] }; var o2 = Object.clone(o); o2.version = '1.5 weird'; o2.authors.pop(); alert( " Value of o.version : " + o.version ); // Returns 1.5 alert( " Value of o2.version : " + o2.version ); // Returns 1.5 weird alert( " Value of o.authors : " + o2.authors ); // Returns ['sam'] } </script> </head> <body> <p>Click the button to see the result.</p> <br /> <br /> <input type="button" value="Result" onclick="showResult();"/> </body> </html>
To understand it in better way you can Try it yourself.
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