Scoping inside Javascript anonymous functions
- by DCD
I am trying to make a function return data from an ajax call that I can then use. The issue is the function itself is called by many objects, e.g.:
function ajax_submit (obj)
{
var id = $(obj).attr('id');
var message = escape ($("#"+id+" .s_post").val ());
var submit_string = "action=post_message&message="+message;
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: document.location,
data: submit_string,
success: function(html, obj) {
alert (html);
}
});
return false;
}
Which means that inside the anonymous 'success' function I have no way of knowing what the calling obj (or id) actually are. The only way I can think of doing it is to attach id to document but that just seems a bit too crude. Is there another way of doing this?
