tolowercase-method-javascript.md

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toLowerCase Method (JavaScript)

Converts all the alphabetic characters in a string to lowercase.

Syntax

  
      strVariable.toLowerCase()  
"String Literal".toLowerCase()   

Remarks

The toLowerCase method has no effect on non-alphabetic characters.

The following example demonstrates the effects of the toLowerCase method:

var str1 = "This is a STRING.";  
var str2 = str1. toLowerCase();  
document.write(str2);  
  
// Output: this is a string.  

Requirements

[!INCLUDEjsv1]

Applies To: String Object

See Also

toLocaleLowerCase Method (String)
toUpperCase Method (String)