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Closure Example Relating to 'this' Execution Context

Published in: JavaScript 

Example showing how using 'this' in a function depends on where 'this' is defined. From book jQuery in Action.

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  1. $(function(){
  2. 	//Let ID equal a string
  3. 	this.id = 'someID';
  4. 	//Set function outer to this
  5. 	var outer = this;
  6. 	$('*').each(function(){
  7.    		/**
  8.    		 * Since outer is being pulled in from outside the function, it still
  9.    		 * retains the external context to this. Alert will be 'someID'
  10.    		 */
  11. 		alert(outer.id);
  12. 	});
  13. });

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