Question

I have written a utility function which expects the window object to work on.

function someFunc(windowObj) { windowObj.someOtherFunc(); }

Now, I want to call this function onclick of a hyperlink, but the following code does not send the window object.

<a href='#' onclick='someFunc(this.window)'>Test</a>

and this doesn’t work either:

<a href='#' onclick='someFunc(this)'>Test</a>

I understand in the latter case, this refers to the html anchor element itself.

Any thoughts how this can be done?

Answer 1

The window object is a global object which is referred to without the ‘this’ pointer.

Try

<a href="#" onclick="someFunc(window)">Test</a>

instead and see if that works better.