What's the .apply jQuery function?

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CRISHK Corporation picture CRISHK Corporation · Sep 26, 2010 · Viewed 87.8k times · Source

I see that in different plugins and codes, but I don't understand what does that function... In the jQuery api isn't referenced!

Answer

Amber picture Amber · Sep 26, 2010

apply calls a function with a set of arguments. It's not part of jQuery, it's part of core Javascript. However, there is mention of it in the jQuery docs:

http://docs.jquery.com/Types#Context.2C_Call_and_Apply

Syntax:

somefunction.apply(thisObj, [argsArray])

The above calls the function somefunction, setting this to thisObj within the function's scope, and passing in the arguments from argsArray as the arguments to the function.

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