Question

As someone who is attempting to take a more object oriented approach to my javascript programming I’ve hit a stumbling block which I’m sure is probably something very basic, but, take the following object implementation (assume that the jQuery object is available to this code):

function Foo()
{
    this.someProperty = 5;
}

Foo.prototype.myFunc = function()
{
    //do stuff...
};

Foo.prototype.bar = function()
{
    //here 'this' refers to the object Foo
    console.log(this.someProperty);

    $('.some_elements').each(function()
    {
        //but here, 'this' refers to the current DOM element of the list of elements
        //selected by the jQuery selector that jquery's each() function is iterating through
        console.log(this);

        //so, how can i access the Foo object's properties from here so i can do
        //something like this?
        this.myFunc();
    });
};

Answer 1

You can temporarily use another variable to point to the correct this:

Foo.prototype.bar = function()
{
    //here 'this' refers to the object Foo
    console.log(this.someProperty);

    var self = this;

    $('.some_elements').each(function()
    {
        self.myFunc();
    });
};