I am not familiar with this syntax. What does the $. mean before the function call?
I am not familiar with this syntax. What does the $. mean before the
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I am not familiar with this syntax. What does the $. mean before the function call?
$is just a name of some object. It could be jQuery, or Prototype, in case you’re using one of these libraries.So
$.functionName()simply stands for calling a function namedfunctionNameof the object named$.