The old/traditional way: Capture this in a variable: this.initialize = function(selector) { var that = this; $(‘span#banner1-nav’).click(function(event) { that._onClickNavigation(event); }); } You could also assign this to a variable e.g. instance: function ScrollBanner() { var instance = this; // … } and refer to instance instead of this in all the calls. The overall idea … Read more
It’s fairly good practice to probe possibly “unknown” objects for the properties and methods you expect to find. So, assume you have got an event object, and probe it before acting on it, e.g. if (event.target) { //looks like we’re an event, hide the target var e=$(event.target); e.hide(); } It’s important to note that I’m … Read more
The event target is the element to which the event is dispatched: The object to which an event is targeted using the DOM event flow. The event target is the value of the Event.target attribute. srcElement is a IE non-standard way to obtain the target. The current event target is the element which has the … Read more