如果属性名有特殊字符，则需要使用括号:

var foo = {
    "Hello, world!": true,
}
foo["Hello, world!"] = false;

除此之外，我想这只是个人喜好的问题。恕我直言，点表示法更短，而且更明显地表明它是一个属性而不是数组元素(当然JavaScript没有关联数组)。

或者当你想动态改变一个元素的classList动作时:

// Correct

showModal.forEach(node => {
  node.addEventListener(
    'click',
    () => {
      changeClass(findHidden, 'remove'); // Correct
    },
    true
  );
});

//correct
function changeClass(findHidden, className) {
  for (let item of findHidden) {
    console.log(item.classList[className]('hidden'));// Correct
  }
}

// Incorrect 
function changeClass(findHidden, className) {
  for (let item of findHidden) {
    console.log(item.classList.className('hidden')); // Doesn't work
  }
}

括号表示法可以使用变量，所以它在两个点表示法不起作用的情况下很有用:

1)动态确定属性名时(直到运行时才知道确切的名称)。

2)当使用for..in循环遍历对象的所有属性时。

来源:https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Working_with_Objects

括号表示法允许您通过存储在变量中的名称访问属性:

var obj = { "abc" : "hello" };
var x = "abc";
var y = obj[x];
console.log(y); //output - hello

obj。X在这种情况下不成立。

在ie8中，点表示法不适用于某些关键字(如new和class)。

我有这样的代码:

//app.users is a hash
app.users.new = {
  // some code
}

这会触发可怕的“期望标识符”(至少在IE8和windows xp上，我还没有尝试过其他环境)。简单的解决方法是切换到括号符号:

app.users['new'] = {
  // some code
}

The two most common ways to access properties in JavaScript are with a dot and with square brackets. Both value.x and value[x] access a property on value—but not necessarily the same property. The difference is in how x is interpreted. When using a dot, the part after the dot must be a valid variable name, and it directly names the property. When using square brackets, the expression between the brackets is evaluated to get the property name. Whereas value.x fetches the property of value named “x”, value[x] tries to evaluate the expression x and uses the result as the property name.

So if you know that the property you are interested in is called “length”, you say value.length. If you want to extract the property named by the value held in the variable i, you say value[i]. And because property names can be any string, if you want to access a property named “2” or “John Doe”, you must use square brackets: value[2] or value["John Doe"]. This is the case even though you know the precise name of the property in advance, because neither “2” nor “John Doe” is a valid variable name and so cannot be accessed through dot notation.

对于数组

数组中的元素存储在属性中。因为这些属性的名称都是数字，而且我们经常需要从变量中获取它们的名称，所以我们必须使用括号语法来访问它们。数组的length属性告诉我们它包含多少个元素。这个属性名是一个有效的变量名，我们事先知道它的名字，所以要找到一个数组的长度，你通常写array。长度，因为它比数组[" Length "]更容易写。