Javascript function context, “apply” method and lost “this” object
July 12th, 2009
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How many times you had problem or were asked about what happened to this object in your function? Or why this is not an object you expect it to be? Probably these times you have to remind yourself or your fellow programmer about function context.
First of all I have to ask you all a pretty lame question. If you write function in JS block right inside your HTML, what this keyword will refer to?
<script type="text/javascript">
function testThis(){
//who is "this"
}
</script>
And now to the real example.
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