Question

I am bit stuck, don’t know if its possible to turn:

$("#id").click(function(){  
    var that = jQuery(this);  
    wildFunction(that);
});  

into

$("#id").click(wildFunction(this));

Answer 1

“this” is a scope variable so it would be present in the event handler no matter how you bind it. so this would work:

$("#id").click(wildFunction);

function wildFunction()
{
    var that = $(this); // this is valid here, and we can make jQuery object with it
}