Getting jQuery to return an ajax object
- by japancheese
Hello,
The question title is a bit strange because I'm not exactly sure how to phrase the problem. The issue is that I have many links to which I want to bind a click event with an ajax call, and I'm just looking to refactor some duplicate code into a single area.
The links I'm trying to bind an ajax call only have one thing that differentiates them, and that's an id from a previously declared object. So I have lots of code that looks like this:
$("a.link").bind('click', function() {
id = obj.id;
$.ajax({
url: "/set/" + id,
dataType: 'json',
type: "POST"
})
});
I was trying to refactor it into something like this:
$("a.link").bind('click', ajax_link(obj.id));
function ajax_link(id) {
$.ajax({
url: "/set/" + id,
dataType: 'json',
type: "POST"
})
});
However, as you can imagine, this just actually makes the ajax call when the element is binded with the click event.
Is there an easy way to refactor this code so I can extract out the common ajax code into its own function, and hopefully reduce the number of lines of jQuery in my current script?
