adding 'click' event listeners in loop

sergionni picture sergionni · Jan 18, 2012 · Viewed 41.2k times · Source

Refactoring standard onClick within html tag to listeners ,faced problem with my code:

var td;
    for (var t=1;t<8;t++){
        td = document.getElementById('td'+t);
        if (typeof window.addEventListener==='function'){
                td.addEventListener('click',function(){
                    console.log(td);
            })}
 }  

When td element is clicked on,it's assumed that clicked td with last index from loop,e.g. 7
Looks like ,eventListeners been populated for last element in this loop only.
Loop initialization looks correct.
Why so happened?

Here is live code

Answer

jabclab picture jabclab · Jan 18, 2012

You need to wrap the assignment of the event listener in a closure, something like:

var td;
for (var t = 1; t < 8; t++){
    td = document.getElementById('td'+t);
    if (typeof window.addEventListener === 'function'){
        (function (_td) {
            td.addEventListener('click', function(){
                console.log(_td);
            });
        })(td);
    }
}