Late binding onclick event

Question

Following part of my javscript(using jquery).

list = [\'a\', \'b\', \'c\'];
for(var i = 0 ; i< list.length ; i++) {
   $(\"click here\").
          


        

Answer 1

You'll need a closure new scope as the iteration finishes before the event handler is triggered, so when the click happens, the loop has finished and i is the last value it's set to, a new scope keeps the value of i local to that scope

list = ['a', 'b', 'c'];

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

   (function(j) {

       $("<a>click here</a>").click(function(){
          foo(list[j]);
       }).appendTo('#sometag');

   }(i));

}

function foo(val) {
    console.log(val);
}

Another option is to add more jQuery

list = ['a', 'b', 'c'];

$.each(list, function(index, item) {
    $("<a />", {text : 'click here',
                on   : {
                    click : function() {
                        foo(item);
                    }
                }
    }).appendTo('#sometag');
});

function foo(val) {
    console.log(val);
}

Answer 2

Create a closure to retain the value of i for the particular iteration when the function is executed, without a closure i remains in scope causing all of the created functions to eventually have the value at the last iteration:

var list = ['a', 'b', 'c'];
for(var i = 0 ; i< list.length ; i++) {
   var func = createFoo(list[i]);
   $("<a>click here</a>").
      click(func).
      appendTo('#sometag');
}
function createFoo(value){
    return function(){
        foo(value);
    };
}
function foo(val) {
    console.log(val);
}

JS Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/5dUgw/

Also note you need to change int to var since this is JS.