jquery click handler that passes attribute of clicked object into function?

Question

I have a link like

<a href="#" id="foo" class="bar_link">blah</a>

I have many of these and the id value is an integer corresponding to a record in a database.

I want to create a click handler to pass the id attribute value for a specific link into a function whenever that link is clicked.

Here is what I have tried, but I am not having success.

$(".bar_link").live('click', barDetailsInit($(this).attr('id')));

What do you think? Thx!

I would like to point out that `id` attributes cannot be integers. Consider using `name` instead. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/70579/what-are-valid-values-for-the-id-attribute-in-html) — Doug Owings, Jun 22 '11 at 23:09

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 22 '11 at 23:07

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This will work

$('.bar_link').live('click', function() { 
    barDetailsInit(this.id);
});

edited Jun 22 '11 at 23:07

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It sure does! Thanks so much! – istan Jun 22 '11 at 23:11

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 22 '11 at 23:07

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Oops, you forgot to wrap the click event in an anomymous method.

$(".bar_link").live('click', function() { barDetailsInit($(this).attr('id')); });

Your version would pull this as whatever the scope that the line is running in (probably "window").

answered Jun 22 '11 at 23:07

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 22 '11 at 23:06

Try this instead:

$(".bar_link").live('click', function(event) {

    barDetailsInit($(this).attr('id')));

});

Basically you'll need to call your function from within the event callback, then at that point you have context and can call your function with the desired parameter.

jquery click handler that passes attribute of clicked object into function?

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