Using this in event handler in strict javascript?

Question

Suppose you have a routine like the following to wire up click event handlers

getElements(\".board>div\").forEach(function(elem){
  elem.addEventListener(\"cl         


        

Answer 1

use one eventhandler

especially if you have many elements inside your board.

adding multiple eventlisteners slows down the browser.

js

function h(e){
 alert(e.target.textContent)
}
document.getElementsByClassName('board')[0].onclick=h

or

document.querySelector('.board').addEventListener('click',h,false)

html

<div class="board"><div>1</div><div>2</div><div>3</div><div>4</div></div>

example

http://jsfiddle.net/3csJ2/

in your case...

function h(e){
 e.target.innerText==1||(alert('this is not 1')/*,...*/) 
}

example 2

http://jsfiddle.net/3csJ2/1/

inside the handler function (h) this is the 'board'.

Answer 2

Why don't you just bind the function with the object?

getElements(".board>div").forEach(function(elem){
  elem.addEventListener("click", handleClick.bind(elem));
});

Answer 3

Your use of this is valid. To suppress the this errors in your event handler add /*jshint validthis: true */ to the top of the function.

Found that here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16553290/552067