At the very beginning of the javascript file, I have:

var lbp = {};
lbp.defaults = {
    minLength: 40
};

I can successfully alert it afterwards, with:

alert(lbp.defaults.minLength);  

But as soon as I put it inside a function, when I alert, I get "Undefined". What gives, and how do I avoid this? Is it absolutely necessary to pass this variable into each function, for example, by doing:

function(lbp) { alert(lbp.defaults.minLength); }

I would have thought that defining it first, it would attain global scope and not be required to be passed in?

Thanks in advance for enlightening me :)

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EDIT: The problem seems like it might be my initialize function is itself defined within lbp. Is there any way to use this function var, and still use lbp vars inside it?

lbp.initialize = function() {
        alert(lbp.defaults.minLength);  
};

The full bit of code looks like this:

<script type="text/javascript">

var lbp = {
    defaults: {
        minLength: 40
    }
};

lbp.initialize = function() {
    alert(lbp.defaults.minLength);  
};
    window.onload = lbp.initialize;
</script>