var transitionInitial = {property: "none"};
var rules = ["color", "background-color"];
var transitions = [];
for ( var k = 0; k < rules.length; k++)
{
transitions[k] = transitionInitial;
transitions[k].property = rules[k];
alert(transitions[0].property);
}
Why at the second iteration transitions[0].property equals "background-color"?
Because you are storing a reference to transitionInitial, not a copy of it. transitionInitial points to an object in memory, and you are storing a reference to this object in transitions[k]. Regardless of the iteration you are at, you are always changing the same object.
It's because both values in your transitions array are pointing at the same object. During the execution of your code you produce one object that has three different references (transitionInitial, transistions[0], & transistions[1]).
During the first iteration of the loop, transistions[0] is set to reference the transitionInitial object. Then the property property of that object is set to the value "color". During the second iteration transitions[1] is set to reference the same object as transitionInitial and transitions[0]. You then reset the property's value to "background-color".
To solve this create different objects for each of your array indexes:
// Not needed anymore:
// var transitionInitial = {property: "none"};
var rules = ["color", "background-color"];
var transitions = [];
for ( var k = 0; k < rules.length; k++) {
transitions[k] = {};
transitions[k].property = rules[k];
alert(transitions[0].property);
}
Does it have anything with this to do maybe? for ( var k = 0; k < rules.length; k++)
Try changing the timer.
