[jQuery] Re: jQuery and the 'this' keyword

[Michael Lawson]

Because you are binding the click event to the button and not your object

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  From:       "#micah" <micah.a.sm...@gmail.com>                       
                                                                       
  To:         "jQuery (English)" <jquery-en@googlegroups.com>          
                                                                       
  Date:       07/30/2009 03:45 PM                                      
                                                                       
  Subject:    [jQuery] jQuery and the 'this' keyword                   
                                                                       






I've created a javascript object like so:

var myObj={
     //    internally used
     OtherFunction: function(){ alert('hi');},

     //    externally used
     EditInfo: function(){
           this.OtherFunction();
     }
};

if i bind EditInfo to a button, like so:

$('#myButton').click(myObj.EditInfo)

Then (this) is pointing to the button, not to myObj. Why is that?

I'm using FF3.5

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