Question

I’m trying to use jQuery to change the value of button.kill. However I don’t know how to access button.kill from within the get callback.

$("button.kill").click(function(){
    $.get("file.php",{ nbRandom: Math.random() },
    function(data){
        //set button.kill text to data
    });
});

There will be more than one button named kill and I want to ensure that I only update the one that the user has clicked.

Any pointers?

Answer 1

You could do

$("button.kill").click(function(){
    //save the variable that refers to the current object  to another variable
    var that = this;
    $.get("file.php",{ nbRandom: Math.random() },
    function(data){
        //set button.kill text to data
        //here this would not be the clicked element so we use that
         $(that).text(data);
    });
});