[jQuery] Re: Scope variables in anonymous functions?

[Josh Nathanson]

You have to do it that way because the context has changed.  Thus "this" in
the second anonymous function will refer to something different than in the
first.  A lot of people use the convention "var self = this" or something
similar.

Also within the anonymous function you can do this:
siblings.find( etc );
category.find( etc );

...since they are already jQuery objects.

-- Josh

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Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:44 AM
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Subject: [jQuery] Scope variables in anonymous functions?


What I'm trying to figure out is how I can access parent scopes from a
nested anonymous function. As you can see here, I'm managing to do
this by assigning "this" to variables, but I know that there's a way
to pass "this" into the anonymous functions:

$(".responsibleCouncil .category").each(function() {
    var category = $(this);
    var input = $(this).find(".toggler input");
    var siblings = $(this).siblings();

    input.click(function() {
        $(siblings).find("ul").hide();
        $(category).find("ul").show();
    });
});

Basically, those three assignments at the top of the first anonymous
function would be unnecessary if I knew of a better way to access
"this" from nested functions.