I kinda figured that it was an anonymous function, but the outer
parens were kinda throwing me off.
Thanks for the info.
On Jul 4, 2:38 pm, "Aaron Heimlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 3:08 PM, benjam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What exactly does (function($){ ... })(jQuery) do?
>
> This
>
> function($){ ... }
>
> is an anonymous function. Because functions are first-class objects in
> JavaScript, they can be treated just like any other object; which means that
> you can immediately execute an anonymous function by doing this:
>
> function($){ ... }(jQuery)
>
> However, because of a quirk in JavaScript syntax, to be able to do this
> properly, you need to put parentheses around the anonymous function, like
> this:
>
> (function($){ ... })(jQuery)
>
> --
> Aaron Heimlich
> Web Developer
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