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Asked: 2026-05-21T19:37:41+00:00

I figure i’ve just been staring at my screen too long today – I

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I figure i’ve just been staring at my screen too long today – I can’t find the error here. I’ve got a jQuery template and i’m using KnockoutJS’s foreach on it. Inside i have a button and i’m trying to call a function onclick and pass in an iteration value. Here’s the snippet from the template. The only thing that i can think would be wrong is something about my jQuery template syntax, tho it’s working elsewhere
<button onclick="newTabify(${$data})">Chat</button>

My template looks like this…(the button’s inside, along with a bunch of other stuff)

 <div data-bind='template: {name: "contactTemplate", foreach:contacts}' id="contactList"></div>
<script id='contactTemplate' type='text/html'>
 ... 
</script>

The newTabify function looks like:

 function newTabify(contact) {
        tabify($.inArray(contact, viewModel.contacts()));
    }

What’s extremeley odd here is the error. 

SCRIPT1007: Expected ']' 
default.html, line 1 character 19

Line 1 is my <head> tag!!

If you need anymore markup just lemme know. Thanks!

EDIT: Here’s my contact template. The funny thing is there’s not a thing wrong with any of it except for the click event on the button when i try to add the line as shown above. But here’s the rest anyways.

{{if $data.jid() != viewModel.jid() }}
    <div class="wrapper" onclick="wrapperClick(this)">
    <div style="padding-bottom:4px">
    <img src=images/${$data.avail}.png> ${ $data.name } <img class="avatar" src=images/${$data.img}><br> <span class="status">${$data.status }</span>
                </div>
        <a href="mailto:${$data.jid}" >${$data.jid}</a> | <button onclick="newTabify(${$data})">Chat</button> | <button onclick="event.stopPropagation();">Call</button>
    </div>
    {{/if}}

EDIT 2: $data a contact object; i’m looping through contacts (an observable array of contact objects) and sucessfully pulling all the values out of contact, etc. Here’s my contact:

function contact(name, status, avail, jid, img, convIndex){
    return {
    name : ko.observable(name),
    status : ko.observable(status),
    avail : ko.observable(avail), 
    img : ko.observable(img),
    jid : ko.observable(jid),
    convIndex: ko.observable(convIndex)
    };

}

So technically $data should be a instanct of the above.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I can’t guarantee that this is your only problem, but this line is not going to give you what you are expecting:

    <button onclick="newTabify(${$data})">Chat</button>

    Doing ${$data} is going to give you the .toString() of your object. For your object it will look like:

    [object Object]

    So, this would not be valid syntax.

    Since, you are using Knockout you can instead do something like this (even inside of a template) and it will pass the actual object properly:

    <button data-bind="click: function() { newTabify($data); }">Chat</button>
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