I have an answer to my own question (i'm still reading up on the theory of closures, but i think that this is an example of one)...
I saved "this" into another variable and created an anonymous function which called the "bind" method using my saved "this".... var this_copy = this; function doBind() { $(...).bind('someevent', function() { this_copy.somemethod()}) } etc., On Aug 2, 4:31 pm, ablock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know when using addEventListener to "this" refers to the "owner" > which is in this case the HTML element. The JQuery method "bind" seems > to act similarly. Is there away to access the object that called the > event handler also? > Thanks