How to pass arguments to addEventListener listener function?

Question

The situation is somewhat like-

var someVar = some_other_function();
someObj.addEventListener(\"click\", function(){
    some_function(someVar);
}, false);
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Answer 1

One way is doing this with an outer function:

elem.addEventListener('click', (function(numCopy) {
  return function() {
    alert(numCopy)
  };
})(num));

This method of wrapping an anonymous function in parentheses and calling it right away is called an IIFE (Immediately-Invoked Function Expression)

You can check an example with two parameters in http://codepen.io/froucher/pen/BoWwgz.

catimg.addEventListener('click', (function(c, i){
  return function() {
    c.meows++;
    i.textContent = c.name + '\'s meows are: ' + c.meows;
  }
})(cat, catmeows));