[jQuery] Re: puzzle of "this"

[Karl Swedberg]

On Nov 10, 2007, at 9:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

hi everyone
i am a newbee for jquery and trying to play with it, i was puzzled by
the use of this somehow, for examle
$('.delete').click(function(){
       $.post("test2.php",{id:txt},function(){
                this.something};});
here if i want to refer this to the $('.delete') element, what shall i
write?
in debugger i found this refers to the function body.


You could try this:

$('.delete').click(function(){
	var $thisDelete = $(this); 	// $thisDelete is now a jQuery object  
wrapping the clicked element
                                                        // useful for attaching 
jQuery methods, chaining, etc.
       $.post("test2.php",{id:txt},function(){
                $thisDelete.somejQueryMethod();
        });
});

--Karl
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