Question

var $content    = $('#SomeDivContainingTwoImages');
$content.children().each(function(i){
    $(this).showImage = showImageStatic;
    $(this).showImage();
});

returns

Uncaught TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method 'showImage' 

when run. This works outside of the jquery each iterator, ie if I just apply it to a single element. What’s up?

Answer 1

You are re-creating a jQuery object with every call to $(this).

This should work:

$content.children().each(function(i) {
    var $this = $(this);
    $this.showImage = showImageStatic;
    $this.showImage();
});

But I think that’s not a very good way of handling it. You could call showImageStatic() directly:

showImageStatic.call($(this));