MDN claims that:
The comma operator evaluates both of its operands (from left to right) and returns the value of the second operand.
However, when I tried running <script> alert(1, 2); </script>, it shows a "1" instead of a "2".
Am I misunderstanding something?
In the context of a function call, the comma is used to separate parameters from each other. So what you're doing is passing a second parameter to alert() which gets silently ignored.
What you want is possible this way:
alert((1,2));
The extra brackets form a parameter on their own; inside them you can use the comma as an operator.
Comma(,) is also a parameter separator.
Use alert((1,2)) instead.
When you use it like that, the comma is not an operator, it's a separator between the parameters in the call to the alert method.
If you put parentheses around them so that it's an expression, it will show you 2:
alert( (1,2) );
