HTML5 API documentation

Version: stable

FUNCTION
html5.run()	run JavaScript code, in the browser, from Lua

Functions

html5.run()

html5.run(code)

Executes the supplied string as JavaScript inside the browser. A call to this function is blocking, the result is returned as-is, as a string. (Internally this will execute the string using the eval() JavaScript function.)

PARAMETERS

code string Javascript code to run

RETURNS

result string result as string

EXAMPLES

local res = html5.run("10 + 20") -- returns the string "30"
print(res)
local res_num = tonumber(res) -- convert to number
print(res_num - 20) -- prints 10