How to use closures to create event listeners in a Javascript for loop?

Question

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Answer 1

var charElems = document.getElementsByClassName('char');

for (var i = 0; i < charElems.length; i++) {

    //close...
    //charElems[i].addEventListener('mouseover',function() {
    //    (function(j) {mouseoverCheck(j);}(i));
    //});

    //like this
    (function(el, x) {
        el.addEventListener("mouseover", function() {
            mouseoverCheck(x);
        });
    })(charElems[i], i)


}