Question

lets assume that I have the following …

jQuery('#a').click(function(){
   myFunction();
});
function myFunction(){
  var me = jQuery(this);// this one gets the "window" object instead of "#a" element
}

How can I get the target element that initiated the event from myFuncton while I cant send this as parameter because its going to coast me to go back and re-check the whole site and change every function call arguments …

Answer 1

So you could just do:

$('#a').click(myFunction); // then this in myFunction will be the '#a' element.

Update:

If you need to do other thing in the callback other then myFunction, then you could try .call() or .apply() to execute a function with a given this value.

$('#a').click(function() {
    otherLogic();
    myFunction.call(this);
});